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GENERAL  ®  9 
CONFERENCE 


Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 

HELD  AT 

CLEVELAND,  OHIO,  MAY,  1896. 


WITH  PORTRAITS  OF  DELEGATES,  AND  SKETCHES  FROM  NORTHWESTERN 

CHRISTIAN  ADVOCATE,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 


Authorized  by  Committee  on  Entertainment. 


J.  R.  CREIGHTON,  D.  D., 
M.  A.  HEAD.  D.  D.,  .  .  . 


^  Editors. 


CINCINNATI :  CRANSTON  &  CURTS. 
NEW  YORK  :  HUNT  &  EATON. 
1896. 


COPYRIGHT  BY 


J.  R.  CREIGHTON, 

Publishing  Committee. 
M.  A.  HEAD,  \  * 


1896. 


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DELEGATED  GENERAL  CONFERENCES. 


NO. 

YEAR. 

PLACE. 

MEMBERS. 

i . 

....  1 8 1 2 . 

. John  Street,  New  York . 

. . . .  90 

2 . 

3 . 

. 1820 . 

. Baltimore . 

. . . .  89 

4 . 

. 1824 . 

. Baltimore . 

. ...  125 

s . 

. 1828 . 

. Pittsburg . 

6 . 

. 1832 . 

7 . 

. 1836 . 

. Cincinnati  New  Ratio) . 

....  151 

8 . 

. . . .  143 

9 . 

. 1844 . 

. . . .  180 

io . 

. 1848 . 

. Pittsburg . . 

. . . .  151 

ii . 

. 1852 . 

. Boston . 

....  178 

12 . 

. 1856 . 

. Indianapolis . 

. . . .  220 

13 . 

. . . .  221 

14 . 

. 1864 . 

15 . 

. 1868 . 

. . . .  243 

l6 . 

.  . . .  421 

17 . 

. 1876 . 

. Baltimore . 

••••  355 

18 . 

......  1880 . 

.  .  .  .  Cincinnati . 

. . . .  399 

19 . 

. 1884 . 

. Philadelphia . 

.  . . .  417 

20 . 

. 1888 . 

. New  York . 

. . . .  463 

21 . 

. 1892 . 

. Omaha . 

. . . .  504 

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NEW  YORK  HOUSE. 


©ook  ©ommittee. 


DISTRICT.  NAME.  CONFERENCE. 

1.  A.  F.  CHASE, . Maine. 

2.  A.  J.  PALMER, . New  York. 

3.  L.  C.  QUEAL, . Central  New  York. 

4.  E.  J.  GRAY,  Secretary , . Central  Pennsylvania. 

5.  W.  F.  WHITLOCK,  Chairman , . North  Ohio. 

6.  J.  E.  WILSON, . South  Carolina. 

7.  CLEMENT  STUDEBAKER . Northwest  Indiana. 

8.  M.  A.  HEAD, . Central  Illinois. 

9.  J.  R.  CREIGHTON, . Wisconsin. 

10.  N.  A.  CHAMBERLAIN, . Colorado. 

11.  T.  B.  SWEET, . Kansas. 

12.  W.  R.  DUNCAN, . Little  Rock. 

13.  H.  A.  SALZER, . Northwest  German. 

14.  JUSTUS  GREELY, . California. 


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CINCINNATI  HOUSE. 


SUBDIVISIONS  BOOK  COMMITTEE. 

Eastern  Section — Chairman,  E.  L.  FANCHER ;  Secretary,  A.  J.  PARMER. 
Western  Section — Chairman,  CLEM.  STUDEBAKER;  Secretary,  M.  A.  HEAD. 


LOCAL  COMMITTEES. 


NEW  YORK. 

WILLIAM  HOYT. 

E.  B.  TUTTLE. 

E.  L.  FANCHER. 


CINCINNATI. 

J.  N.  GAMBLE. 
RICHARD  DYMOND. 
R.  T.  MILLER. 


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BALCONY 

DIAGRAM.  SEATING  OF  THE  GENERAL  CONFERENCE 


GENERAL  CONFERENCE,  1896. 


location  ai^  Entertainment. 

HE  authority  to  select  the  place  of  meeting  and  provide  for  the  entertainment 
of  the  General  Conference  having  been  intrusted  to  the  Book  Committee, 
that  body  appointed  a  sub-committee  from  its  own  membership  to  visit  each 
place  inviting,  and  examine  into  their  ability  to  meet  the  conditions  neces¬ 
sary  for  the  ample  and  successful  entertainment  of  so  large  an  assemblage.  In  the  per¬ 
formance  of  this  duty,  Saratoga,  Cleveland,  Indianapolis,  Detroit,  and  Chicago  were  in 
turn  visited,  and  a  full  report  made  at  the  meeting  of  the  Book  Committee  in  1894. 
After  a  careful  consideration  of  the  advantages  offered  by  each  place,  Cleveland,  receiv¬ 
ing  a  majority  of  the  votes,  was  duly  selected,  and  the  sub-committee  appointed  a  perma¬ 
nent  committee,  with  authority  to  make  and  carry  out  complete  arrangements  for  the 
comfort,  convenience,  and  entertainment  of  the  General  Conference  of  1896. 

The  committee  thus  appointed,  duly  organized,  is  as  follows  : 

A.  J.  PALMER,  Chairman,  150  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

W.  F.  WHITLOCK,  Secretary,  Delaware,  Ohio. 

RICHARD  DYMONI),  Treasurer,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

A.  F.  CHASE,  Rockport,  Maine.  M.  A.  HEAD,  Grant  Park,  Ill. 

E.  J.  GRAY,  Williamsport,  Pa.  L.  C.  QUEAL,  Moravia,  New  York. 

J.  R.  CREIGHTON,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

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GENERAL  CONFERENCE  CITY 


CLEVELAND,  OHIO,  has  shown  great  enthusiasm  in  the  location  of  the  General 
Conference  from  the  beginning,  and  its  citizens  hailed  the  choice  of  their  lovely  city 
with  delight.  A  large  and  influential  Committee  of  Arrangements  was  selected,  and 
in  the  face  of  great  difficulties  arising  from  a  necessarily  iucompleted  building,  every 
requirement  of  the  Entertainment  Committee  has  been  satisfactorily  met. 


CLEVELAND  COMMITTEE  OF  ARRANGEMENTS. 


OFFICERS. 

President . HORACE  BENTON,  . 

Vice  President, . WILSON  M.  DAY,  .  . 

Recording  Secretary, . A.  H.  VAN  GORDER, 

Corresponding  Secretary,  ....  Rev.  F.  A.  GOULD,  . 
Treasurer, . W.  E.  WALWORTH,  . 


m-113  Water  St. 

27  Vincent  St. 
m-113  Water  St. 
164  Kenilworth  Ave. 
56  Public  Square. 


EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE. 

The  above  Officers  and  the  following  Chairmen  of  Committees: 

Finance, . F.  A.  ARTER, . 230  Euclid  Ave. 

Auditorium, . W.  M.  BAYNE, . 69  Frankfort  St. 

Hotels  and  Boarding  Houses,  .  .  J  S.  ORAM, . 160  Coe  St. 

Railroads  and  Excursions,  .  .  .  O.  L.  DOTY, . 65  Atwater  Building. 

Committee  Rooms, . C.  S.  McKIM, . 24  Seneca  St. 

Post-office,  Telegraph  &  Tel’ne,  .  H.  C.  BRAINERD,  M.  D. . 89  Euclid  Ave. 

Public  Worship, . Rev.  JOHN  F.  FISHER,  ....  44  Chestnut  St. 

Lectures  and  Music, . B.  E.  HELMAN, . 23  Euclid  Ave. 

Reception, . Rev.  JOHN  MITCHELL,  ....  206  Franklin  Ave. 

Press, . Rev.  LEVI  GILBERT . 504  Prospect  St. 

Printing . J.  L.  GOBEILLE,  . Cor.  Leonard  and  Winter. 

Auditing, . A.  I.  TRUESDELL . The  Arcade. 


O.  M.  STAFFORD. 
S.  R.  BADGLEY. 

J.  W.  SCOTT. 

R.  A.  FIELD. 

O.  C.  CLARK. 


ADDITIONAL  MEMBERS  OF  COMMITTEE. 


REV.  W.  H.  RIDER. 
REV.  A.  VAN  CAMP. 

S.  ROSSITER,  Jr. 

S.  SPENCER. 

Rev.  E.  S.  LEWIS, 
PRES.  CADY  STALEY. 


Rev.  R.  M.  FRESHWATER. 
Rev.  J.  S.  REAGER. 

Rev.  D.  H.  MULLER. 

JAY  D.  STAY. 

J.  D.  JONES,  M.  D. 


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LEVELAND,  called  from  its  numerous  trees  the  “Forest  City,”  was  founded 
in  1796  by  Moses  Cleaveland,  and  named  in  his  honor.  On  his  return  to 
Windham,  Connecticut,  he  spoke  of  having  laid  out  a  town  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Cuyahoga  River,  which  had  been  named  for  him,  and  said:  “I  should  not  be  sur- 


SOLD1ERS’  MONUMENT. 


prised  if  it  is  some  day  as  big  as  Windham.”  It  is  now  the  tenth  city  in  size  in  the 
United  States,  having  a  population  of  333,000.  Elaborate  preparations  are  being  made 
to  celebrate  its  centennial  this  summer. 


CITY  GOVERNMENT.  The  form  of  government  is  known  as  the  “Federal.”  The 
legislative  body  consists  of  twenty-two  members,  known  as  the  Common  Council.  The 


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Executive  Department  consists  of  the  mayor,  and  the  heads  of  the  six  departments  of 
Public  Works,  Daw,  Accounts,  Fire,  Police,  and  Charities  and  Corrections,  who  are 
nominated  by  the  mayor,  and  confirmed  by  the  Council,  and  who  are  responsible 
for  appointments  in  their  several  departments.  These  six  “  Directors,”  with  the  mayor, 
constitute  the  “  Board  of  Control.”  The  mayor,  police  judge,  treasurer,  and  Council 
are  elected  b>^  the  people. 

SHIPPING  AND  MANUFACTURES.  Cleveland  is  the  first  city  in  the  United 
States  in  tonnage  of  vessels  built,  only  one  port  in  the  world,  the  Clyde,  exceeding 
it.  More  than  $20,000,000  worth  of  vessels  are  owned  here.  It  is  the  largest  iron- 
ore  market  in  the  world  In  over  2,000  factories  52,000  wage  -  earners  produced 
$104,000,000  worth  of  goods  in  1895.  Twenty  thousand  articles  made  here  are  ex¬ 
ported.  Cleveland  is  the  first  city  in  the  United  States  in  the  manufacture  of  steel 
ships,  heavy  machinery,  heavy  forgings,  bolts  and  nuts,  malleable  castings,  carriage 
hardware,  shoddy  and  blankets,  electric  dynamos,  electric  carbons,  vapor  stoves,  wire 
and  wire  nails,  and  in  the  last  four  articles  ranks  first  in  the  world. 

EDUCATIONAL.  The  schools  are  unexcelled.  The  first  high  school  in  the  United 
States  was  established  here.  There  is  $4,142,320  invested  in  school  property;  $1,149,069 
was  expended  on  education  in  1895,  and  48,069  pupils  were  taught  by  1,002  teachers 
in  85  buildings.  There  are  three  high  schools,  a  normal  school,  a  manual  training 
school,  and  a  system  of  night  schools.  In  addition  to  numerous  private  and  parochial 
schools,  there  are  three  medical  colleges,  five  business  colleges,  a  woman’s  college,  two 
schools  of  music,  au  art  school,  Adelbert  University,  and  Case  School  of  Applied 
Science.  Cleveland  has  a  free  public  library,  with  branches  in  different  parts  of  the 
city.  There  are  also  the  Case,  Law,  and  Historical  libraries. 

A  CITY  OF  HOMES.  Cleveland  is  a  city  of  homes,  having  45,000  dwelling 
houses,  more  workingmen  owning  their  homes,  in  proportion  to  population,  than  any 
other  large  American  city. 

PHILANTHROPIC  AND  BENEVOLENT.  Cleveland’s  charities  are  extensive,  and 
thoroughly  organized  through  an  organization  known  as  ‘‘The  Bethel  Associated  Char¬ 
ities.”  The  city  has  thirteen  hospitals,  several  private  sanitariums,  five  orphan  asy¬ 
lums,  six  children’s  homes,  four  homes  for  aged  men  and  women,  three  invalid  homes, 
two  rescue  homes  for  fallen  women,  three  homes  for  women  and  girls,  a  men’s  home, 
a  maternity  home,  and  two  deaconess  homes.  There  are  nine  day  nurseries,  ten  free 
kindergartens,  eight  free  dispensaries,  nineteen  benevolent  aid  societies,  and  several 
missions  combining  religious  and  relief  work. 

Its  Young  Woman’s  Christian  Association  is  very  successful. 

The  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association  has  a  costly  central  building,  with  every 
facility  known  to  the  modern  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association,  and  three  branch 
buildings.  It  has  a  membership  of  2,468  in  the  central  association,  and  3,500  in  all. 
It  conducts  an  evening  college,  with  700  students,  has  a  fine  lecture  course,  thorough 


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courses  in  the  English  Bible,  an  employment  bureau,  and  in  every  way  is  one  of  the 
most  valuable  of  Cleveland’s  institutions. 


OBJECTS  OF  INTEREST.  Euclid 

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Avenue,  Wade  and  Gordon  Parks,  Eake 
View  and  Riverside  Cemeteries,  the  Gar¬ 
field  and  Soldiers’  Monuments,  the  via¬ 
ducts,  the  ore  docks,  the  Arcade  Society 
for  Savings,  New  England  and  other  build¬ 
ings,  the  Work-house,  Northern  Ohio  Asy¬ 
lum  for  the  Insane,  Sheriff  Street  Market, 
Lakeside  Hospital,  the  Young  Men's  Chris¬ 
tian  Association,  Public,  Case,  and  His¬ 
torical  Libraries,  Adelbert  University,  and 
Case  School  of  Applied  Science,  the  rolling 
mills,  shipyards,  Standard  Oil  Company, 
National  Carbon  Works,  and  other  great 
factories.  The  best  view  of  the  city  is 
from  the  New  England  Building,  on  Euclid 
Avenue. 


CHURCHES.  Cleveland’s  churches  are  numerous  and  aggressive.  All  the  leading 
denominations  are  well  represented.  There  are  many  costl)r  and  beautiful  buildings. 
Institutional  features  are  common.  Philan¬ 
thropic  and  benevolent  effort  is  conducted 
on  a  large  scale,  and  the  Churches  are 
growing  faster  than  the  population. 


GARFIELD  MONUMENT. 


CLEVELAND  ^BTHODJSA- 

The  Conference  Minutes  of  1895  give  thirty  Churches,  with  a  membership  (in¬ 
cluding  probationers)  of  7,665,  more  than  1,000  in  advance  of  any  Protestant  denom¬ 
ination.  The  present  membership  is  about  8,000.  The  twenty-nine  church-buildings 
are  valued  at  $751,000,  the  eleven  parsonages  at  $39,500.  There  is  preaching  in 
English,  German,  Bohemian,  and  Swedish.  In  1895  there  was  paid  for  pastoral  sup¬ 
port,  $38,260;  current  expenses,  $16,311;  Sunday-schools,  $8,207;  building  and  im¬ 
proving,  and  paying  indebtedness  of  churches  and  parsonages,  $60,586 ;  benevolences, 
$15,433;  a  total  of  $138,797.  There  are  8,112  Sunday-school  scholars,  and  877  officers 
and  teachers. 

EPWORTH  LEAGUE.  A  well-officered  city  League  holds  quarterly  meetings  of 
great  value,  attended  by  large  and  enthusiastic  audiences.  There  are  twenty-nine 
Senior  Leagues,  with  2,700  members,  and  eighteen  Junior  Leagues,  with  i,?oo 
members. 


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THE  METHODIST  SOCIAL  UNION  is  an  organization  of  Methodist  ministers  and 
laymen,  having  as  its  object  the  advancement  of  all  Methodist  interests,  and  the  cul¬ 
tivation  of  denominational  unity  and  social  life  among  the  Churches. 

THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  AND  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  was  organized  in 
April,  1886.  It  has  assisted  in  building  eight  churches  and  chapels,  and  contributes 
to  the  support  of  others.  It  originated  and  carried  to  success  the  $50,000  movement 
by  which  the  debts  of  all  Methodist  Churches  in  the  city  were  paid  in  1890.  The 
Society  expended  about  $8,000  in  1895. 

THE  WOMAN’S  FOREIGN  AND  WOMAN’S  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETIES 

are  both  active  and  efficient.  Each  has  a  City  Union.  The  Woman’s  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sionary  Society  has  1,260  members,  and  the  Woman’s  Home  Missionary  Society  557 
members  in  the  city. 

THE  DEACONESS  HOME.  The  Board  was  organized  in  October,  1889.  For  five 
years,  from  April  1,  1890,  the  Home  was  at  1058  East  Madison  Avenue,  the  lease  of 
which  was  generously  given  by  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Dillon  Prosser.  In  February,  1895, 
the  present  building,  268  Woodland  Avenue,  with  a  lot,  44  by  200,  was  purchased  for 
$6,000,  of  which  Mr.  W.  F.  Walworth  generously  gave  $3,000.  The  Cleveland 
Churches  furnished  it,  and  it  is  well  adapted  in  every  way  to  its  purpose.  There  are 
now  eleven  deaconesses,  four  nurse  and  seven  visiting,  in  the  Home.  The  expendi¬ 
tures  in  1895  were  $2,805.65.  Mr.  Walworth  has  since  given  twenty  feet  at  the  rear 
of  the  lot,  an  outlet,  three  feet  wide,  on  Orange  Street,  and  a  building  which  will  be 
used  for  mothers’  meetings,  night  school,  sewing  school,  kindergarten,  etc.,  valued  at 
$1,100,  which,  with  amounts  expended  for  improvements  and  furnishings,  makes  the 
Deaconess  property  worth  $8,500. 

THE  METHODIST  TIMES  is  the  organ  of  Cleveland  and  North  Ohio  Methodism. 
It  is  owned  by  a  stock  company.  It  began  publication  as  a  weekly,  January  11,  1895. 
Its  circulation  is  2,100,  and  increasing  steadily.  Jay  P.  Stay  is  editor  and  manager. 


COVENANT  M.  E.  CHURCH,  PHILADELPHIA,  PA. 


CHRIST  M.  E.  CHURCH,  PITTSBURG,  PA. 
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The  FIRST  Methodist  Society  in  the  New  World  organized  in  1766  with  five  mem¬ 
bers,  in  Philip  Embury’s  house,  New  York. 

The  FIRST  church,  “an  edifice  of  most  primitive  character,”  dedicated  in  1768. 
The  FIRST  itinerant  preachers,  Richard  Boardman  and  Joseph  Pilmoor,  sent 
from  the  Eeeds  Conference  in  1769. 

THE  FIRST  Annual  Conference  organized  in  Philadelphia,  1773,  with  ten  preach¬ 


ers,  there  being  a  membership  in 

THE  FIRST  General  Con- 
the  “Christmas  Conference” 
held  in  Baltimore,  Decem- 
5,  1785,  sixty  preachers 
Thos.  Coke  presiding, 
tion,  they  organized  the 
Church,”  elected  and 
Asbury  as  superin  ten- 
band  of  heroic  laborers, 

Church.  “Sowing  in 
nite  toil,  what  a  won- 
this  year  of  grace 

1.  A  General 
ing  about  540  del- 
meeting  in  this  its 
quadrennial  ses- 
gated  Conference 

2 .  One  hun- 
nual  organizations, 
visitation,  classi- 
( 1 )  120  Annual 
Mission  Conferences 


the  societies  of  1,160. 

ference,  if  what  is  known  as 
is  accepted  as  such,  was 
ber  24,  1784,  to  January 
being  in  attendance, 
After  careful  delibera- 
“  Methodist  Episcopal 
consecrated  Francis 
dent,  and  went  forth,  a 
to  build  up  the  new 
tears,”  and  with  infi- 
derful  fruitage  !  for  in 
1896  there  are : 
Conference,  hav- 
egated  members, 
twenty  -  second 
sion,  the  first  dele- 
being  in  1812. 
dred  and  forty  an- 
requiring  episcopal 
fied  as  follows: 
Conferences;  (2)  8 

(3)  12  Missions.  A  total  of  17,026  itinerant  ministers  and  14,896 


local  preachers. 

3.  A  lay  membership  of  2,700,000,  besides  320,000  probationers;  30,000  Sunday- 
schools,  with  3,000,000  scholars  and  teachers;  1,100,000  Epworth  Leaguers;  25,393 
church-buildings,  valued  at  $107,960,374,  and  9,813  parsonages,  valued  at  $16,649,392. 

4.  Contributions  for  various  official  benevolences,  $2,105,020;  for  ministerial  sup¬ 
port,  $10,600,000;  besides  current  expenses,  improvements,  and  debts  canceled, 
$9,000,000  more. 


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fjlif^HE  GENERAL  CONFERENCE  has  always  paid  special  attention  to  fraternal 


greetings  and  reports.  A  Committee  on  Reception  is  duly  appointed,  suitable 


evenings  set  apart,  and  the  occasion  made  one  of  inspiration  and  good  cheer, 
as  the  fraternal  union  between  the  toilers  in  the  Master’s  field  of  whatever  name  and 
organization  can  not  be  too  close  and  cordial. 


WM.  L.  WATKINSON. 


ENGLISH  WESLEYAN  CONFERENCE. 

The  Rev.  Wm.  L-  Watkinson  is  the  delegate  from  the  English  Wesleyan  Con¬ 
ference.  He  is  the  editor  of  the  English  Wesleyan  Magazine.  He  is  the  equal  of  any 
preacher  for  popular  and  instructive  power  in  the  English  Conference.  Mr.  Hughes, 
in  a  late  number  of  his  paper  called  the  Methodist  Times,  stamps  Mr.  Watkinson  as 
“  Our  unique  and  brilliant  preacher.” 

Mr.  Watkinson  is  the  author  of  several  volumes  which  have  a  great  sale  in  Eng¬ 
land,  and  a  good  sale  in  Canada,  and  are  worthy  of  a  wide  circulation  among  the  Meth¬ 
odist  public  anywhere.  The  volumes  are  as  follows:  “Mistaken  Signs,  and  Other 
Papers  on  Christian  Life  and  experience;”  “Noonday  Addresses;”  “The  Beginning  of 
the  Christian  Life;”  “The  Influence  of  Skepticism  on  Character;”  “The  Lessons  of 
Prosperity;”  “The  Program  of  Life ;”  “  Transfigured  Sackcloth.” 

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METHODIST  CHURCH  OF  CANADA. 


Rev.  John  Lathern,  D.  D.,  representative  of  the  General  Conference  of  the  Meth¬ 
odist  Church  of  Canada  to  the  General  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
1896,  was  born  at  Newshield  House,  Cumberland,  England,  1831,  and  was  accepted  for 
the  ministry  by  the  British  Wesleyan  Conference  of  1855.  He  was  sent  out  to  the  Con¬ 
ference  of  Eastern  British  America;  ordained  in  1859,  and  stationed  in  St.  John,  N.  B. 
He  was  president  of  the  Nova  Scotia  Conference  in  1882,  ..and  the  following  year 
received  the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Mount  Allison  University.  He  was  elected  editor  of 


JOHN  LATHERN,  D.  D. 

the  Wesleyan ,  the  Eastern  Church  paper,  in  1886,  and  remained  in  that  office  until  1895. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  every  General  Conference  since  the  first  union  of  Canadian 
Methodism.  Since  1890  he  has  been  president  of  the  Mount  Allison  Board  of  Regents. 
Amongst  books  published  by  Dr.  Lathern  are,  “  Eectures  on  Literary  Subjects,”  “Life 
of  Governor  Wilmot,”  “  Baptisma,”  and  “The  Macedonian  Cry.” 


METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH,  SOUTH. 

Rev.  James  C.  Morris,  D.  D.,  fraternal  delegate  from  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
South,  was  born  July  7,  1838,  in  Georgetown,  Kentucky.  In  1855,  removed  to  Jack¬ 
sonville,  Illinois,  where  he  attended  Illinois  College,  and  graduated  in  1856.  Returning 
to  Kentucky,  he  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Lexington  in  i860.  In 


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September,  1865,  he  was  admitted  to  Kentucky  Conference,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
South,  on  trial.  Ordained  deacon  by  Bishop  D.  S.  Doggett  in  1866;  elder  by  Bishop 

George  F.  Pierce  in  1867.  Was  trans¬ 
ferred  to  Louisville  Conference  in  1874, 
and  stationed  at  Walnut  Street  charge. 
After  nine  years  in  that  city,  he  was 
transferred,  in  1883,  to  Denver  Confer¬ 
ence,  and  stationed  in  Denver.  In  1885, 
he  was  transferred  to  Southwest  Mis¬ 
souri  Conference,  and  stationed  at  Wal¬ 
nut  Street,  St.  Louis.  After  three  years, 
he  was  appointed  to  Centenary  in  that 
city,  and  during  that  pastorate  he  was 
elected  by  the  General  Conference  of 
1890,  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  assistant 
secretary  of  the  Board  of  Church  Ex¬ 
tension,  and  removed  to  Louisville,  Ken¬ 
tucky.  In  1891,  he  was  transferred  to 
the  North  Alabama  Conference,  and  sta¬ 
tioned  at  Birmingham.  I11  1895,  he  was 
transferred  to  the  Tennessee  Confer¬ 
ence,  and  stationed  at  McKendree 
jas.  c.  morris,  d.  d.  Church,  Nashville. 


IRISH  METHODIST  CONFERENCE. 


Rev.  R.  Crawford  Johnson  is  the  delegate  from  the  Irish  Conference.  He  is 
the  superintendent  of  the  Belfast  Central  Mission,  and  is  to  Irish  Methodism,  in  this 
mission  work,  what  Hugh  Price  Hughes  is  to 
English  Methodism.  Antrim,  Ireland,  is  the  birth¬ 
place  of  Dr.  Johnson.  He  was  born  June  15,  1841, 
and  was  educated  by  private  tutors  in  his  native 
city.  Having  filled  the  office  of  class-leader  and 
local  preacher,  he  was  accepted  by  the  Conference 
of  1863  as  a  candidate  for  the  itinerancy. 

Dr.  Johnson  has  received  many  marks  of  esteem 
from  his  ministerial  associates.  In  1879  he  was 
elected  junior  representative  of  the  British  Con¬ 
ference,  in  1883  assistant  secretary  of  the  Confer¬ 
ence,  in  1858  chairman  of  the  Enniskillen  District, 
in  1890  a  representative  of  the  Ecumenical  Confer¬ 
ence,  in  1892  ministerial  treasurer  of  the  Home 
Mission  Fund,  and  in  1893  he  was  appointed  secre¬ 
tary  of  the  Irish  Conference. 

Dr.  Johnson  has  been  in  charge  of  the  Belfast 
City  Mission  since  1889,  where  he  has  shown  great  organizing  skill.  He  is  booked  for  a 
series  of  lectures  in  different  Eastern  cities  before  returning  to  his  native  country. 


R.  CRAWFORD  JOHNSON,  D.  D. 


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THE  AFRICAN  METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 

Rev.  John  Albert  Johnson,  B.  A.,  the  fraternal  delegate  from  the  African  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Church,  was  born  and  educated  in  Canada.  He  is  a  regular  graduate  in 
Arts  and  Theology,  and  is  regarded  by  his  brethren  as  eloquent  in  the  pulpit,  excellent 
in  spirit,  a  thorough  Methodist,  and  an  experienced  missionary. 


JOHN  A.  JOHNSON,  B.  A. 


No  doubt  there  will  be  other  evangelical  bodies  represented.  In  other  years  we 
have  received  delegates  from  African  Methodist  Episcopal  Zion  Church,  tfie  Methodist 
Protestant  Church,  United  Brethren  Church,  and  the  Presbyterian  General  Assembly. 
We  regret  failure  to  secure  names  or  sketches  of  any,  except  those  already  presented. 
The  fraternal  greetings  brought  by  these  brethren,  will  be  received  with  heartiness  and 
pleasure;  not  that  the  dividing  lines  should  be  any  the  less  distinct,  but  that  brotherhood 
in  race  and  brotherhood  in  Christ  should  be  kept  paramount  in  the  great  work  of  win¬ 
ning  the  world  for  God. 


ST.  PAUL’S  M.  E.  CHURCH,  NEW  YORK. 


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GENERAL  CONFERENCE,  1896. 


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BISHOPS — (i)  Thomas  Bowman,  (2)  Randolph  S.  Foster,  (3)  S.  M.  Merrill,  (4)  E.  G. 
Andrews,  (5)  H.  W.  Warren,  (6)  C.  D.  Foss,  (7)  J.  F.  Hurst,  (8)  W.  X.  Ninde,  (9)  J.  M.  Walden, 
(10)  W.  F.  Mallalieu,  (ii)  C.  H.  Fowler,  (12)  J.  H.  Vincent,  (13)  J.  N.  FitzGerald,  (14)  I.  W. 
Joyce,  (15)  J.  P.  Newman,  (16)  D.  A.  Goodsell. 


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THE  MISSIONARY  BISHOPS. 


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general  Conference  Anniversaries. 


/V  SIDE  from  the  regular  business  sessions,  the  committee  has  arranged  for  recep- 
-TpL  tions,  anniversaries,  and  other  public  gatherings,  in  order  that  the  varied  interests 
of  the  Church  may  be  presented,  their  representatives  fully  recognized,  and  the 
work  that  Methodism  is  doing  for  the  salvation  of  the  world  more  thoroughly 
understood. 

We  set  forth,  in  brief,  telling  paragraphs,  the  history  of  these  various  Societies 
and  the  work  accomplished,  hoping  thereby  to  enhance  the  value  and  usefulness  of 
our  Souvenir. 

THE  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

This  Society  is  the  oldest  denominational  benevolence,  having  been  organized  April 
5,  1819. 

At  this  time  there 
were  but  twenty  -  one 
States,  the  population 
being  not  quite  ten 
millions. 

The  total  receipts 
in  1820  were  $823.04; 
for  the  year  ending 
October  31,  1895, 

$1,242,650.73,  fifty-five 
per  cent  being  appro¬ 
priated  to  foreign  mis¬ 
sions,  and  to  home  mis¬ 
sions  forty -five  per 
cent.  Foreign  missions 
are  maintained  in  the 
Protestant  countries  of 
Germany,  Switzerland, 

Sweden,  Norway,  and 
Denmark;  not  by  send¬ 
ing  missionaries  to 
them,  but  by  support¬ 
ing  native  preachers 
and  erecting  houses  of 
worship. 

The  earliest  mis¬ 
sion  was  commenced  in  1849.  The  aggregate  results  up  to  the  present  are  594  preach¬ 
ers,  traveling  and  local,  and  44,216  members  and  probationers. 

The  missions  in  Greek  Church  countries  are  in  Finland,  St.  Petersburg,  and  Bul¬ 
garia,  begun  in  1844,  and  having  now  26  preachers  and  1,072  members  and  probationers. 

The  missions  in  Roman  Catholic  countries  are  in  Italy,  South  America,  and  Mexico. 
The  earliest  mission,  that  of  South  America,  began  in  1836.  The  aggregate  results  are, 
members  9,387,  with  202  preachers. 

The  missions  in  heathen  countries  are  in  Africa,  China,  India,  Japan,  Malaj^sia,  and 


THE  FIRST  JOHN  STREET  CHURCH. 


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26  Qw^irid  5®yvein)Iro 

Korea.  The  first  missionary  to  Africa  was  the  Rev.  Melville  B.  Cox,  who  arrived 
in  1833. 

In  1888,  William  Taylor  was  elected  and  ordained  Missionary  Bishop  for  Africa, 
and  has  been  indefatigable  in  his  labors.  There  are  now  nearly  5,000  preachers,  mem¬ 
bers,  and  probationers. 

The  first  convert  in  China  was  baptized  in  1857,  the  mission  having  been  planted 
ten  years  previously.  There  are  now  two  Conferences  and  two  missions,  with  912 
preachers  and  16,431  members  and  probationers. 

Since  beginning  the  work  in  India,  in  1856,  great  prosperity  has  attended  the  labors 
of  our  missionaries,  under  the  careful  oversight  of  J.  M.  Thoburn,  who  was  elected  and 
ordained  Missionary  Bishop  to  India  in  1888.  The  Mission  has  developed  into  five 
Conferences,  with  622  preachers  and  67,526  members  and  probationers. 

Missions  began  in  Japan,  1873;  in  Korea,  1885;  in  Malaysia,  1886.  These  three 

mission  fields  report 
at  present  182 
preachers  and  4,500 
members. 

Total  member¬ 
ship  in  all  foreign 
missions,  147,654, 
with  807  churches 
and  chapels;  3,430 
Sunday-schools,  with 
156,831  scholars;  and 
1,482  d'ay  -  schools , 
with  39,628  scholars. 

The  home  mis- 

% 

sions  are  among  the 
poor  and  destitute 
portions  and  the  col¬ 
ored  people  of  the 
South,  the  Indians 
and  un reached 

classes  of  the  West,  the  foreign-speaking  populations,  and  the  unevangelized  masses  of 
our  larger  towns  and  great  cities. 

There  are  at  present  11  organized  domestic  missions;  17  American  Indian  missions; 
foreign-speaking  missions  in  72  Conferences,  and  English-speaking  missions  numbering 
3,062,  in  59  different  Conferences. 

McKendree,  mighty  in  missionary  labors,  was  the  first  president,  and  all  through 
the  years  the  Church  has  been  careful  to  select,  for  secretaries  and  official  management, 
from  among  the  noblest  of  her  representative  men. 

The  vast  interests  of  the  Society  are  under  the  control  of  a  Board  of  Managers, 
sixty-four  in  number,  elected  quadrennially  by  the  General  Conference — the  bishops  be¬ 
ing  members  ex-officio — and  meeting  monthly;  and  a  General  Missionary  Committee, 
consisting  of  bishops,  secretaries,  and  treasurer,  fourteen  managers,  yearly  appointed, 
and  fourteen  members,  quadrennially  elected  by  the  General  Conference  upon  the  nom¬ 
ination  of  the  districts  to  be  represented,  and  meeting  in  annual  session. 


LINDELL  AVENUE  M.  E.  CHURCH,  ST.  LOUIS,  MO. 


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PUBLISHING  AGENTS. 


SANDFORD  HUNT.  EARL  CRANSTON.  HOMER  EATON.  LEWIS  CURTS. 

Since  the  preparation  of  this  cut,  the  Senior  Agent,  Dr.  Hunt,  has  died.  God  gave  him  a  happy 
hour  to  make  the  crossing.  On  his  arrival  at  the  place  of  meeting,  where  he  was  to  render  an 
account  of  work  well  done,  in  a  moment  he  was  called  to  the  higher  accounting  and  the  more 
glorious  reward. 


THE  BOOK  CONCERN. 

The  founder  of  Methodism  was  remarkable  for  the  number  and  variety  of  his  publi¬ 
cations,  covering  as  they  did  the  whole  field  of  religious  thought  and  morals. 

The  people  everywhere  were  urged  to  purchase  and  carefully  read  his  literature, 
and  he  devoted  all  the  profits  to  the  benefit  of  his  societies. 

Wesleyan  publications  were  scattered  through  the  American  Colonies ;  but  a  pub¬ 
lishing-house  in  this  country  was  soon  a  necessity,  and  in  1789  it  became  an  accom¬ 
plished  fact. 

It  was,  however,  purely  a  work  of  faith;  the  first  agent,  John  Dickins,  loaning  the 
Concern  $600  of  his  own  money,  and  courageously  entering  upon  the  work  committed 
to  him. 

Beginning  in  a  little  hired  room,  we  have  to-day  the  great  Book  Concern  of  the 
Church,  with  headquarters  in  New  York  and  Cincinnati,  housed  in  magnificent  build¬ 
ings,  and  with  seven  depositories  in  as  many  of  the  larger  cities. 

The  Western  Book  Concern  began  as  a  branch  house  in  1820.  Since  then  the 
growth  has  been  rapid,  having  now  a  regular  publishing  establishment  with  its  own 
depositories,  supplying  the  demand  for  Methodist  literature  throughout  the  entire  West, 
and  issuing  all  the  German  book  and  periodical  literature  both  East  and  West. 

Capital  of  the  New  York  house,  $2,045,133;  of  the  Cincinnati  house,  $1,447,730. 
Total  capital,  $3,492,863. 


SUNDAY-SCHOOL  UNION. 

This  is  the  second  oldest  official  benevolence  of  the  Church.  Previous  organiza¬ 
tions  were  all  merged  in  the  present  Union  by  the  General  Conference  of  1840. 

From  widely-scattered  fields  expressions  of  gratitude  are  being  continually  received 
for  much  needed  gifts  of  books  and  literature,  and  the  great  good  that  is  being 
accomplished. 

Total  number  of  schools  under  the  care  of  the  Union,  30,259;  of  these  907  are 


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in  Europe;  2,448  in  Asia;  49  in  Africa;  132  in  Mexico  and  South  America;  and  1,275 
among  the  immigrants.  Total  number  officers,  teachers,  and  scholars  is  nearly  3,000,000, 
with  conversions  reported  this  year  of  132,697.  The  receipts  from  Conferences  are 
$23,888  for  this  year.  The  number  of  schools  aided  during  this  year,  has  been  3,773. 
More  than  36,000,000  English  and  2,000,000  German  periodicals  have  been  circulated. 

THE  TRACT  SOCIETY. 

This  Society  was  organized  in  1854,  operating  in  foreign  fields,  and  helping  every 
mission  of  the  Church  to  circulate  religious  literature  in  its  own  spoken  language.  In 

foreign  fields  funds  have  been  fur¬ 
nished  for  the  printing  of  religious 
literature,  and  it  has  been  sent  to 
every  home  field,  distributed  among 
immigrants,  in  hospitals,  prisons,  asy¬ 
lums,  to  soldiers,  sailors,  and  to  pas¬ 
tors  in  their  regular  work,  aggregat¬ 
ing  13,840,225  pages.  There  have  been 
printed  this  year  in  New  York  and 
Cincinnati  1,522,100  tracts.  The  re¬ 
ceipts  for  the  year  have  been  $20,653. 

These  Societies  —  Sunday-school 
and  Tract— are  under  the  control  of 
a  Board  of  Managers,  appointed  quad¬ 
rennially  by  the  General  Conference, 
with  power  to  fill  vacancies.  The 
senior  bishop  is  president,  and  his 
colleagues  vice-presidents  ex-officio. 

CHURCH  EXTENSION 
SOCIETY. 

This  work  was  organized  by 
order  of  the  General  Conference  of 
1864,  in  pursuance  of  resolutions  pre¬ 
pared  by  Rev.  Dr.  A.  J.  Kynett,  then 
junior  delegate  from  Upper  Iowa  Con¬ 
ference,  and  under  a  form  of  constitution,  prepared  by  him,  following  that  of  the  Mis¬ 
sionary  Society.  He  afterward  became  the  corresponding  secretary,  entering  upon  the 
duties  of  the  office  July  14,  1867. 

The  first  corresponding  secretary  was  Rev.  S.  Y.  Monroe,  D.  D.  At  that  time  (1867), 
the  appropriations,  authorized  by  the  General  Committee,  had  exceeded  the  cash  receipts 
by  $300,000,  and  drafts  drawn  on  the  treasury  by  the  bishops,  under  the  system  then 
prevailing,  had  been  returned  without  payment,  for  lack  of  funds,  to  the  amount 

of  $60,000. 

Constrained  by  necessity,  the  plans  of  work  were  modified  by  the  new  management, 
and  concurred  in  by  the  General  Conference  of  1868.  Later,  on  the  recommendation  of 
the  corresponding  secretary,  a  more  radical  change  was  made  by  the  General  Conference 
of  1872,  transforming  the  organization  from  a  Society  to  a  Board,  elected  by,  and  directly 
responsible  to,  the  General  Conference.  A  corresponding  change  in  the  charter  was 


WESLEY  M.  E.  CHURCH,  MINNEAPOLIS,  MINN. 


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made  by  the  Legislature  of  Pennsylvania,  February  26,  1873.  This  plan  of  organizing 
Church  benevolences  was  so  manifestly  right  and  wise  that  it  was  adopted  also,  at  the 
same  General  Conference,  for  the  Missionary  Society,  the  Tract  Society,  and  the  Sunday- 
school  Union. 

The  first  receipts  of  the  Church  Extension  treasury  were  October  19,  1865,  and  the 
first  appropriation  to  a  Church  in  Greeneville,  Tennessee,  the  home  of  President  Andrew 
Johnson,  March  5,  1866. 

The  plan  for  a  Loan  Fund  was  first  proposed  b}^  Dr.  Kynett,  and  adopted  for  Church 
Extension  in  Upper  Iowa,  as  a  part  of  the  centennial  celebration  for  that  year.  The 
same  plan  was  proposed,  and  adopted  for  the  General  Society,  July  22,  1867.  The  first 
considerable  subscription  to  the  Upper 
Iowa  Loan  Fund  was  by  Hon.  Hiram 
Price,  now  of  Washington,  $1,000. 

The  first  subscription  to  the  Loan 
Fund  of  the  Parent  Society  was  by 
Thomas  A.  Morris,  then  our  senior 
bishop.  Referring  to  it  at  a  meeting  of 
the  bishops  and  their  friends  in  Phila¬ 
delphia,  November  20,  1868,  Bishop 
Morris  said  :  “  I  regard  the  Church 

Extension  Society  as  second  in  im¬ 
portance  only  to  the  Missionary  So¬ 
ciety,  if,  indeed,  second  to  that;  and 
I  regard  the  Loan  Fund  as  the  best 
strike  that  has  yet  been  made  for  the 
Society. 

The  report  of  the  General  Com¬ 
mittee  and  Board  of  Church  Exten¬ 
sion  to  the  General  Conference  will 
give  in  detail  the  results  of  this  work 
to  the  close  of  the  last  fiscal  year, 

October  31,  1895.  Adding  receipts 
and  disbursements  to  February  29, 

1896,  and  estimates  for  the  months  of  March  and  April,  the  results  of  this  work  to  May  1, 
1896,  when  the  General  Conference  will  convene,  are,  in  round  figures,  as  follows: 

Total  receipts, . $5,600,000 

Of  this  amount,  received  in  General  Fund,  available  for  donations,  etc.,  $3,600,000 

Capital  in  Loan  Fund,  available  only  for  loans, . $970,000 

Loans  returned  by  Churches  borrowing, . 1,030,000 

On  account  of  Loan  Fund,  total, . 2,000,000 

$5,600,000 

The  total  number  of  Churches  aided,  including  loans  to  a  few  parsonage  properties, 
is  9,900,  estimated  to  be  worth  $30,000,000. 

The  general  statistics  indicate  that  the  total  number  of  our  Methodist  Episcopal 
churches  is,  in  round  numbers,  25,000,  and  their  total  value,  $110,000,000.  It  will  be 
seen,  therefore,  that  more  than  one-third  of  the  entire  number  of  our  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Churches,  the  valuation  of  which  exceeds  one-fourth  of  the  totals,  have  been  aided 
by  this  organization  within  a  little  more  than  thirty  years.  It  is  estimated  that  about 
twenty  per  cent  of  all  contributions  for  the  support  of  the  gospel  and  the  benevolent  in¬ 
stitutions  of  our  Church  comes  from  the  Churches  thus  aided  by  this  Board  of  Church 
Extension. 


FIRST  M.  E.  CHURCH,  GALESBURG,  ILL. 


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THE  EREED/AEN’S  AID  AND  SOUTHERN  EDUCATION 

SOCIETY. 

Its  work  is  “the  establishment  and  maintaining  or  aiding  of  institutions  of  Chris¬ 
tian  learning  among  both  white  and  colored  people  in  the  Southern  States,  and  in  such 
other  territory  as  the  General  Conference  may  from  time  to  time  designate.” 

The  division  of  the  schools  as  to  race  is  made  upon  the  basis  of  mutual  preference, 
and,  as  a  result,  there  is  but  little  commingling  of  colored  and  white  students  in  the  same 
schools. 

Among  the  colored  people  there  are  one  theological,  ten  institutions  of  collegiate 
grade,  and  eleven  academies,  in  which  are  304  teachers  and  4,845  students;  Meharry 
Medical  College  is  a  department  in  Central  Tennessee  College,  Nashville. 

Among  the  white  people  are  two  institutions  of  collegiate  grade,  including  schools 
of  Theology  and  Medicine  at  Chattanooga,  and  twenty  institutions  of  academic  grade, 
with  169  teachers  and  3,880  students. 


GAMMON  HALL  GAMMON  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY. 


This  makes  a  total  of  forty-four  institutions  of  learning,  with  473  teachers  and  8,725 
students. 

Since  the  organization  of  the  Society  in  1866,  $4,149,693.90  have  been  received 
from  all  sources,  and  expended. 

The  permanent  property,  consisting  of  lands,  buildings,  furniture,  libraries,  etc.,  is 
estimated  to  be  worth  about  $2,000,000,  all  of  which  has  been  secured  since  1866,  in  ter¬ 
ritory  where  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  had  neither  a  school  nor  a  congregation. 
The  results  of  thirty  years’  work  in  the  education  of  Christian  ministers,  physicians, 
teachers,  and  tradesmen  are  beyond  human  words  to  express.  Many  thousands  of  young 
men  and  women  are  now  in  intelligent  and  comfortable  Christian  homes,  and  many 
scores  are  standing  in  the  pulpits  and  leading  educational  positions,  or  practicing  medi¬ 
cine,  who  have  been  prepared  for  their  work  in  these  institutions. 

The  schools  of  the  Society  made  a  fine  exhibit  in  the  Negro  Building  at  the  Atlanta 
International  Exposition.  The  fact  is  worthy  of  remark  that  the  Negro  exhibit  at  that 
Exposition  was  chiefly  made  up  of  the  practical  results  of  education  in  the  schools 
founded  by  this  Society  and  kindred  organizations  of  other  Churches. 

The  sentiments  of  prominent  Southern  white  men  in  Church  and  State  have  under- 


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gone  a  marvelous  change  concerning  the  Negro,  and  his  capabilities,  largely  as  the  out¬ 
come  of  educational  results  secured  by  the  schools  of  this  and  similar  organizations. 

During  the  quadrennium,  ending  June  30,  1895,  the  Society  received  from  Confer¬ 
ence  collections  $445,151.57,  being  an  increase  of  $63,718.57  over  the  collections  of  the  pre¬ 
ceding  quadrennium. 

During  the  same  quadrennium  the  receipts  of  this  Society  from  all  sources,  includ¬ 
ing  Conference  collections,  amounted  to  $1,240,560.22,  being  an  increase  from  all  sources 
of  $259,363.14.  over  the  preceding  quadrennium. 

Up  to  this  time  the  work  of  the  Society  has  been  foundation-laying,  and  the  results 
have  been  glorious.  The  Church,  during  the  next  generation,  will  build  magnificently 
on  these  foundations,  if  she  can  but  more  fully  understand  the  relation  of  this  great 
educational  movement  to  the  Nation  as  a  whole ;  to  the  profound  racial  questions  in¬ 
volved  in  the  freedom  and  elevation  of  the  Negro,  as  well  as  the  elevation  of  the  white 
people  of  the  South,  made  poor  in  purse  and  social  advantages  by  slavery ;  and  also  rises 
to  the  full  appreciation  of  her  responsibility  for  the  redemption  of  America  as  a  whole. 


GRAY  CHAPEL  AND  ADMINISTRATION  BUILDING,  OHIO  WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY,  DELAWARE,  O. 


BOARD  Or  EDUCATION. 

This  Board  was  instituted  by  the  General  Conference  of  1868.  It  is  the  central 
agency  for  promoting  higher  education  in  the  Church.  It  administers  the  Sunday- 
school  Children’s  Fund  in  aid  of  worthy  students,  and,  by  the  authority  of  the  General 
Conference,  has  a  limited  supervisory  care  of  all  the  colleges  of  Methodism.  Children’s- 
day,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Board,  is  being  almost  universally  observed  throughout 
the  Church.  Appropriate  exercises  for  the  day  are  regularly  prepared  by  the  Board, 
nearly  800,000  being  in  use  last  year. 

The  assistance  granted  is  always  in  the  form  of  a  loan  to  members  of  the  Church 


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and  to  young  men  and  women  who  are  in  every  way  worthy,  about  7,000  students  hav¬ 
ing  thus  been  aided  since  the  beginning.  The  sacrifices  cheerfully  made  and  hardships 
endured  to  secure  an  advanced  education  and  prepare  for  a  nobler  sphere  of  useful¬ 
ness  should  “stir  the  heart  of  the  Church’’  to  increased  liberality. 

The  total  amount  loaned  has  been,  including  last  year,  $603,580,  an  average  amount 
to  each  beneficiary  of  over  $91.  Cast  year  the  total  amount  of  loans  was  $70,547, 

and  the  receipts  for  the  same 
time  were  $89,061. 

The  educational  institu¬ 
tions  of  the  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church  can  be  classified 
as  follows:  Colleges  and  uni¬ 
versities,  54,  with  24,159  stu¬ 
dents,  and  endowments  and 
property  valued  at  over  $20,- 
000,000.  Female  colleges  and 
seminaries,  7,  with  1,0 j 2  stu¬ 
dents,  and  endowments  and 
property  valued  at  $450,000. 
Classical  seminaries,  60,  with 
10,000  students,  and  endow¬ 
ments,  and  property  valued 
at  $3,200,000.  Foreign  mis¬ 
sion  schools,-  76,  with  7,922 
students,  endowments,  and 
property  valued  at  over  $1,- 
000,000.  Missionary  institutes,  4,  with  267  students,  and  property  valued  at  $240,000. 
Theological  institutions,  19,  with  892  students,  and  property  valued  at  over  $2,000,000. 

THE  AMERICAN  UNIVERSITY,  dreamed  of  in  the  years  that  are  gone,  suggested 
by  Bishops  Simpson  and  Ames,  talked  of  among  our  educators  and  prominent  men,  is 
now  making  rapid  progress,  and  is  soon  to  take  its  place  among  the  great  educational 
institutions  of  the  land.  In  1890,  a  suitable  and  valuable  site  was  secured  in  Washing¬ 
ton,  D.  C. ;  the  first  installment  of  $20,000  paid ;  the  first  subscription  towards  the 
Methodist  Preachers’  $100,000  secured;  letters  and  resolutions  of  commendation  and 
approval  received  from  representative  men  and  the  bishops;  and  mass-meetings  held. 
In  1891,  organization  was  completed,  trustees  elected,  and  Bishop  Hurst’s  appeal  sent 
forth  for  ten  millions  of  dollars.  In  1892,  adoption  and  approval  of  trustees  by  the  Gen¬ 
eral  Conference.  In  1895,  the  Building  Committee  was  authorized  to  erect  the  Hall  of 
History  and  the  De  Peyster  Hall  of  Languages.  Undoubtedly,  this  is  the  greatest  educa¬ 
tional  enterprise  that  has  been  undertaken  in  this  countrjL  The  success  thus  far  vouch¬ 
safed  is  both  gratifying  to  every  lover  of  the  Church,  and  indicative  of  future  prosperity 
and  development.  It  is  indeed  fortunate  that  Bishop  John  F.  Hurst  has  taken  such  a 
deep  interest  in  the  promotion  of  this  the  crowning  work  of  our  educational  system. 

WOMAN'S  FOREIGN  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

This  Society  was  established  in  Boston  in  1869,  approved  by  the  General  Confer¬ 
ence  in  1872,  and  incorporated  in  1884. 

There  are  eleven  co-ordinate  branches.  Delegates  from  these  branches  and  the 
corresponding  secretaries  constitute  the  General  Executive  Committee,  holding  an 
annual  meeting,  the  one  this  year  being  called  to  meet  in  Rochester,  N.  Y. 


HARRIS  HALL, 

The  new  building  of  the  Chicago  Missionary  Training  School. 


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At  the  last  report  there  was,  of  Auxiliaries,  Young  Women’s  Societies,  and  Chil¬ 
dren’s  Bauds,  a  total  of  6,225,  having  a  membership  of  157,163.  Since  the  meeting  of 
1894,  twenty  missionaries  have  been  sent  to  the  foreign  field.  Six  of  them  are  medical 
graduates,  one  of  them  being  the  only  Chinese  woman  with  a  Western  World  degree  in 
the  Empire  of  China. 

One  hundred  and  fifty-two  missionaries  are  supported  by  the  Society,  of  whom  14 
are  medical;  750  Bible-readers  ;  400  day-schools  ;  49  boarding-schools;  11  orphanages; 


TREMONT  STREET  M.  E.  CHURCH,  BOSTON. 


The  Woman’s  Foreign  Missionary  Society  was  organized  in  this  building,  March  23,  1869.  The 
eight  women  who  met  and  completed  the  organization — namely,  Mrs.  Rev.  Dr.  Butler,  Mrs.  Eewis 
Flanders,  Mrs.  Thos.  A.  Rich,  Mrs.  Wm.  B.  Merrill,  Mrs.  Thomas  Kingsbury,  Mrs.  O.  T.  Taylor, 
Mrs.  H.  J.  Stoddard,  Mrs.  Rev.  E.  W.  Parker — have  their  names  engraved  in  a  beautiful  memorial 
window  in  the  above  church. 


10  training-schools;  13  hospitals  and  dispensaries;  3  homes  for  homeless  women  ;  while 
14,000  pupils  are  cared  for,  and  60,000  patients  receive  medical  attention  annually. 

The  Wesleyan  Home  for  Children  and  Missionaries  is  beautifully  located  at  Newton, 
Mass.,  and  during  the  past  year  has  been  well  filled. 

The  report  for  last  j^ear  showed  the  total  receipts  to  be  $18,000  by  bequest,  and 
$271,227  by  collections  of  “two  cents  a  week.”  Total  value  of  real  estate  and  buildings, 
$500,000.  There  are  about  25,000  subscribers  to  Heathen  Woman' s  Friend. 

India  was  the  first  field  occupied  by  this  Society,  commencing  in  1869.  The  growth 
of  the  work  has  been  indeed  marvelous.  Schools  and  Bible  women  are  now  supported 
in  ri2  stations.  A  Woman’s  College  was  founded  in  Lucknow  in  1887,  a  widow,  a  ten- 
year  old  convert  from  Hinduism,  being  the  first  contributor,  offering  500  rupees.  The 
first  orphanage  was  founded  in  1858.  Over  300  girls  have  been  received  since  the  begin¬ 
ning,  furnishing  continually  fresh  recruits  for  the  ranks  of  Christian  workers. 

The  Society  commenced  work  in  China  in  1871;  in  Japan  in  1872;  in  Korea  in 
1885;  and  in  Bulgaria  the  woman’s  work  was  organized  in  1884.  Sunday-schools,  day- 
schools,  high-grade  seminaries,  homes  for  homeless  widows  and  deaconesses,  medical 
missions,  are  some  of  the  results  attending  the  labors  of  these  consecrated  women. 

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In  Italy,  woman’s  work  commenced  in  1877;  in  Mexico  and  South  America,  in  1874; 
and  in  Africa,  in  1833.  In  all  these  different  countries  the  regular  organized  work  was 
preceded  sometimes  by  individual  effort  on  the  part  of  missionaries’  wives,  sometimes  by 
local  societies ;  but  in  all  of  them  there  has  been  a  revelation  of  “administrative  skill, 
business  enterprise,  literary  ability,  and  far-reaching  plans,”  worthy  of  the  highest  com¬ 
mendation,  evidencing  God’s  acceptance  and  blessing,  and  making  the  Society  a  wonder¬ 
ful  instrumentality  for  the  spread  of  the  gospel  in  every  mission-field. 


ELIZABETH  L.  RUST  INDUSTRIAL  OR  MODEL  HOME,  HOLLY  SPRINGS,  MISS. 


WOMAN'S  HOME  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY. 

Missionary  work  by  women  had  been  successfully  inaugurated  in  several  places 
in  the  South  in  association  with  the  Freedmen’s  Aid  Society,  and  much  interest  awak¬ 
ened  in  behalf  of  the  neglected  people  of  our  own  country.  On  the  8th  of  June,  after 
the  close  of  the  General  Conference  of  1880,  a  meeting  to  consider  the  propriety  of 
organizing  a  “  Woman’s  Home  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  ” 
was  called.  The  object  was  approved,  a  constitution  adopted,  and  officers  were  elected 
July  14th.  The  first  public  meeting  was  held  on  Saturday,  during  the  session  of  the  Cin¬ 
cinnati  Conference,  September,  1880,  when  Bishop  Wiley  and  the  corresponding  secretary 
made  addresses,  and  Mrs.  Alex.  Meharry  contributed  $50  to  the  treasury  of  the  Society. 

During  that  year  five  missionaries  were  employed  in  the  South  and  two  in  Utah. 
A  debt  was  accumulated,  but  a  widespread  interest  was  awakened,  and  the  third  report 
of  the  Society  shows  twenty-one  missionaries  in  the  field,  forty-two  Conferences  organ- 


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ized,  the  debt  entirely  met,  and  the  Society  had  received  a  total  of  $50,122.79.  A  build¬ 
ing  for  home  and  boarding  departments  for  the  seminary  in  Salt  Lake  City  had  been 
erected  and  furnished  at  a  cost  of  $7,000,  and  mission-work  had  been  established  in  sev¬ 
eral  places  in  the  West  and  South,  with  model  homes  or  industrial  schools  at  Little  Rock, 
Ark.,  Holly  Springs,  Miss.,  and  Savannah,  Ga. 

The  Society  secures  its  funds  and  conducts 
its  missions  under  the  limitations  of  the  Dis¬ 
cipline.  In  the  South  the  work  is  associated 
with  the  schools  of  the  Church,  the  Society 
providing  industrial  and  moral  training.  In  the 
West  it  is  under  the  supervision  of  the  mission¬ 
ary  authorities  of  the  district.  Its  city  mis¬ 
sions,  when  practicable,  are  conducted  in  asso¬ 
ciation  with  the  local  Church  Extension  Society, 
which  furnishes  ecclesiastical  relation  to  the 
Conference,  and  its  deaconess  work  is  placed 
under  “  the  general  control  of  the  Conference 
Board  of  Nine,”  as  provided  by  Discipline. 

These  conditions  fulfill  its  constitutional  obliga¬ 
tions,  “  to  co-operate  with  the  other  benevolent 
agencies  of  the  Church  in  educational  and  mis¬ 
sionary  work.”  The  obligation,  ‘‘to  enlist  and 
organize  the  women  of  Methodism  in  behalf  of 
the  neglected  of  all  races  and  all  sections  in  this 
country,”  the  Society  is  endeavoring  faithfully  to 
meet.  A  fuller  appreciation  on  the 
part  of  our  pastors  and  members  of 
the  value  of  a  thorough  organiza¬ 
tion  of  the  women  of  the  Church 
for  Christian  purposes,  and  of  the 
fact  that  this  Society  is  available 
for  local  as  well  as 
general  work,  will 
greatly  promote  or¬ 
ganization,  and  ad¬ 
vance  the  interests 
of  the  Redeemer’s 
cause. 

The  Society  has 
been  guided  in  select¬ 
ing  fields  and  adopt¬ 
ing  agencies  by  prov¬ 
idential  indications  and  the  advice  of  those  best  acquainted  with  the  missionary  needs  of 
this  country.  The  Home  Missionary  field  naturally  divides  itself  into  two  sections  the 
frontiers  South  and  West,  and  cities.  The  work  of  this  Society  was  commenced  in’qhe 
frontiers,  cities  receiving  careful  consideration.  The  first  appropriation  made  to^cities 
was  $417,  in  1885.  In  1888,  $20,000,  one-fifth  of  the  amount  for  the  year,  was  appro¬ 
priated  to  city  work.  The  interest  has  increased  rapidly,  as  shown  by  the  fact  that,  in 
1895,  $90,688  were  designated  for  city  missions  and  deaconess  work,  while  $58,300  went 
to  the  South  and  West. 


CALVARY  M.  E.  CHURCH,  ALLEGHENY,  PA. 


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The  Society  supports  more  than  sixty  distinct  missions.  Of  these,  sixteen  are 
Model  Homes  or  Industrial  Schools  in  the  South.  More  than  five  hundred  girls  are  an¬ 
nually  furnished  instruction  in  all  the  methods  of  good  housekeeping.  These  are  located 
at  Holly  Springs,  Miss,  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  New  Orleans,  and  Clarkson,  Miss.,  Marshall, 
Texas,  Morristown  and  Athens,  Tenu.,  Asheville  and  Greensboro,  N.  C.,  Camden  and 
Orangeburg,  S.  C.,  Atlanta,  Savannah,  and  Speedwell,  Ga.,  Jacksonville  and  Ocala,  Fla. 

The  Society  supports  thirteen  missionaries  in  Utah,  of  whom  seven  are  deaconesses. 
It  has  missions  for  the  Spanish  Americans  at  Las  Vegas,  Las  Cruces,  and  Albuquerque; 
for  the  Chinese  and  Japanese  at  San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles,  and  San  Diego,  Cal.  Its 
Indian  missions  are  in  behalf  of  the  Apaches,  Navajoes,  Arapahoes,  the  Digger  Indians 

in  California,  and  the 
Aleuts  and  others  in 
Alaska. 

There  are  twenty 
Deaconess  Homes  asso¬ 
ciated  with  the  Society, 
and  eight  city  missions, 
in  which  similar  work  is 
done  by  missionaries 
who  do  not  wear  the 
deaconess  garb. 

The  Society  has 
eighty-seven  mission¬ 
aries  in  the  South  and 
West,  and  altogether,  in¬ 
cluding  deaconesses  and 
city  missionaries,  more 
than  two  hundred  and 
fifty,  besides  the  hun¬ 
dreds  of  young  women, 
who,  after  a  course  of 
training  in  our  Indus¬ 
trial  Homes,  are  doing  efficient  missionary  service  among  their  people. 

Four  years  ago  the  Society  reported  $225,000  in  property  ;  now  it  has  $450,000  in¬ 
vested  in  mission-buildings  for  the  accommodation  of  its  work.  Much  of  this  has  been 

received  in  small  sums.  More  recently,  a  few  larger  donations,  as  that  of  Col.  - 

Bennett,  for  the  Deaconess  Home  in  Philadelphia,  $20,000  ;  the  Deaconess  Home  and 
Orphanage,  at  Urbana,  Ill.,  Judge  and  Mrs.  Cunningham,  $15,000;  the  Industrial  Home 
and  School,  at  Tivoli,  N.  Y.,  General  Watts  de  Peyster,  $60,000;  Lucy  Webb  Hayes 
National  Training-school,  at  Washington,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ephraim  Nash,  $10,000  ;  the 
hospital  associated  with  it,  Mr.  Win.  Sibley,  $10,000. 

The  growth  of  the  Society  has  been  steady  from  the  beginning.  The  receipts,  in¬ 
cluding  supplies,  make  a  total  of  $1,697,943.48. 

During  the  quadrennium  the  Society  has  sent  to  our  needy  ministers  on  the  fron¬ 
tiers  supplies  valued  at  $298,746.67,  in  12,000  packages,  bringing  happiness  and  blessing 
to  as  many  families. 

Two  monthlies  have  been  published,  the  Womci7i' s  Home  Missions,  with  18,000  circu¬ 
lation,  and  Children's  Home  Missions,  issued  first  in  January,  1896,  with  4,000  sub¬ 
scribers.  During  the  last  quadrennium  12,000,000  pages  of  leaflet  and  periodical  Home 
Missionary7  literature  have  been  distributed. 


HENNEPIN  AVENUE  M.  E.  CHURCH.  MINNEAPOLIS,  MINN. 


I  his  Home  was  opened  in  1888.  This  property,  valued  now  at  $100,000,  was  purchased  and  presented  by  the  sous  and  daughters  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  James  Gamble,  as  a  fitting  monument  to  the  memory  of  their  parents,  to  become  a  home  and  training-school  for  deaconesses.  It  has  a 
grand  record  of  work  already  accomplished,  having  cared  for  over  400  patients  in  the  hospital  during  the  past  year,  with  calls  and  visits  readi¬ 
ng  up  into  the  thousands,  a  kindergarten  successfully  carried  on,  and  81  conversions  during  the  year  as  occurring  directly  under  deaconess 
influence.  All  this  is  but  an  illustration  of  the  work  being  done  by  the  different  Homes. 


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DEACONESS  WORE. 

The  Deaconess  Movement,  growing  out  of  the  need  of  woman’s  work  on  a  large 
scale  in  the  solution  of  the  social  and  religious  problems  of  our  great  cities,  is  becom¬ 
ing  a  world-wide  instrumentality  for  good. 

The  Home  in  Chicago  was  opened  in  1887,  the  General  Conference  recognizing 
the  work  a  year  later.  The  Deaconess  Conference  was  organized  in  1888,  and  the 
Deaconess  Convention  of  the  Woman’s  Home  Missionary  Society  in  1894.  Regulations 
for  the  conduct  of  the  work  are  as  follows  : 


1.  Deaconesses  are  disciplined.  The  movement  had  its  birth  in  a  training-school,  and  recognized 
that,  if  untaught  missionaries  do  well,  trained  missionaries  must  do  better. 

2.  Deaconesses  are  entirely  unsalaried,  though  those  who  have  need  of  it  are  supported  in  the 
work,  and  all  are  promised  support  in  case  of  sickness  or  old  age. 

3.  Deaconesses  are  costumed  for  recognition,  economy,  and  protection. 

4.  Deaconesses  live  in  communities  called  Homes  (usually). 

5.  Deaconesses  are,  by  the  regulations  of  the  Discipline,  immediately  under  the  care  of  the 
Annual  Conference,  and  thus  of  the  Church. 


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Mrs.  Lucy  Rider  Meyer  furnishes  a  complete  and  accurate  view  of  the  movement 
up  to  the  present. 

I.  As  to  Number  ok  Deaconess  Institutions.  (Including  Homes,  Hospitals,  Orphanages,  etc.> 
under  the  care  of  Deaconesses.) 

Number  of  Institutions  in  the  United  States,  organized  under  Annual 


Conference  Boards, .  22 

Number  of  Institutions  in  the  United  States  organized  under  the 

Woman’s  Home  Missionary  Society  and  Annual  Conference  Boards,  14  1 

Total  in  the  United  States, .  36 

Number  of  Homes  in  German}', .  6 

Number  of  Homes  in  India, .  8 

Number  of  Homes  in  China, .  1 


Total  numbers  of  Deaconess  Institutions  in  M.  E.  Church,  .  51 

Centers  of  work  in  which  only  one  Deaconess  is  employed, .  20 

II.  As  to  Number  of  Deaconesses. 

Number  of  Deaconesses  in  Institutions  under  Annual  Conference  in 

United  States, . 253 

Number  of  Deaconesses  in  Institutions  under  Woman’s  Home  Mis¬ 
sionary  Society  in  United  States, . 116 

Number  of  Deaconesses,  isolated  or  parish, .  20 


Total  in  United  States, .  389 

Number  of  Deaconesses  in  Germany, .  145 

Number  of  Deaconesses  in  India, .  33 

Number  of  Deaconesses  in  China, .  7 

Number  of  Deaconesses  in  Africa .  5 

Total  number  of  Deaconesses  in  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  .  579 

Number  of  these  still  in  training, . 130 

Number  also  of  these  trained  nurses,  about . 100 

III.  As  to  Value  of  Property  Owned. 

Value  of  property  above  debt  owned  by  Institutions  in  the 


United  States  under  the  Annual  Conference, . $410,700 

Value  of  property  above  debt  owned  by  Institutions  under  the 

Woman’s  Home  Missionary  Society  in  United  States,  •  .  133,200 


Total  in  the  United  States, .  $543,900 

Value  of  property  above  debt  in  Germany, .  88,950 

Value  of  property  above  debt  in  India  (estimated), .  20,000 

Value  of  property  above  debt  in  China, .  4,000 

Total  value  of  property, .  $656,850 

IV.  As  to  Work  Done  by  Deaconesses.  (Very  incomplete  report.) 

Number  of  calls  made  by  Deaconesses  in  the  United  States  dur¬ 
ing  the  past  year, .  262,416 

Number  of  patients  cared  for  during  past  year  in  hospitals  in 

United  States, . !'" . 1 ,977 

Number  of  patients  cared  for  during  past  year  in  hospitals  in 

Germany, . 1,031 

Total  number  of  patients  in  hospital .  3.009 

Number  of  patients  cared  for  in  their  own  homes  in  United  States,  3,200 

Religious  meetings  conducted  or  assisted  in  in  the  United  States,  11,000 


Note  1.  These  Woman’s  Home  Missionary  Society  Statistics  correspond  with  those  of  the  1S96  Year-book,  save 
that  centers  of  work  where  only  one  deaconess  is  employed,  are  not  reckoned  as  Homes,  in  order  to  harmonize  phrase¬ 
ology  with  that  of  other  reports.  But  the  Cunningham  Home  and  Orphanage  at  Urbana,  Ill.,  is  counted  as  a  Home,  be¬ 
cause  of  the  fine  property  there. 


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Ocujeml  C©of<tF<gir?e<g  Soyvtulr 


EPWORTH  MEMORIAL  M.  E.  CHURCH,  CLEVELAND,  OHIO. 

(see  original  on  opposite  page.) 


EPWORTH  LEAGUE. 

From  time  to  time  different  Societies  were  formed  for  the  development  and  enter¬ 
tainment  of  the  young  people  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

The  first  movement  towards  unifying  these  organizations  was  made  in  1872;  but 
did  not  accomplish  the  desired  result. 

In  May,  1889,  representatives  from  the  five  societies  then  in  existence  held  a  con¬ 
ference  at  Cleveland,  lasting  for  several  days,  and  on  the  15th  of  that  month  a  formal 
union  was  effected,  and  the  Epwortli  League  entered  upon  its  grand  mission  of  useful¬ 
ness  and  success. 

It  became  a  department  of  Church-work,  and  received  the  formal  indorsement  of 
the  General  Conference  in  1892. 

At  the  first  anniversary,  in  1890,  there  were  1820  Chapters. 

In  this  “sacred  year  of  the  Epworth  League”  there  are  over  16,000  Chapters; 
1,110,000  members,  with  250,000  Juniors. 

There  are  500  German,  300  Scandinavian  and  Danish,  150  India,  36  China  and 
Japan,  and  30  Mexico  Chapters. 

The  first  International  Conference  was  held  in  Cleveland  in  1893,  5,000  being  in 
attendance;  and  the  second  in  Chattanooga,  with  an  attendance  of  15,000. 

The  Epworth  Herald  was  ordered  published  by  the  Book  Committee  at  its  annual 
meeting,  in  February,  1890,  and  the  first  number  was  issued  June  1st  of  that  j'ear.  The 


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OYUGWAU-Y  CtHTR/U.  HUTCH. 
VfHERE.PN  f\AV  \yR\tt9- 
\  TOtWwtn  imam  was  orcanvxv 


first  year  a  subscription  list  was  secured  of  42,000;  it  is  now  in  excess  of  100,000,  and  is 
steadily  increasing. 

In  size,  price,  and  quality  it  is  a  marvel  of  modern  journalism,  and  the  “second 
Sabbatic  year”  should  find  a  list  of  200,000  subscribers. 


The  Reading 
has  now,  in  this 
6,000  sets,  or 
400,000  Topic 
League  Bible 
There  are  1 1 2 


Course,  beginning  the  first  year  with  a  sale  of  165  sets, 

fourth  year,  a  circulation  of 
24,000  volumes.  There  are 
Cards  in  use,  and  20,000 
Studies. 

companies  of  Hpworth 
enant  containing  a 
obscene  stories,  and 
principles  of  purity 
sion  Bureau ;  a  School 
at -work  Series; 
and  Badges; 
Circles;  Ep- 
the  enter- 
Board  of 
interest  that 
Methodism . 
May  15th,  spe- 
event  that  evening  at 
Epworth  Memorial  Church 


Guards,  the  muster  cov- 
pledge  against  tobacco  and 
the  boys  are  trained  in  the 
and  temperance.  An  Exten- 
of  League  Methods ;  a  League- 
Hand-books  ;  League  Leaflets  \ 

Junior  Reading  Course  and  N 
worth  Wheel,  are  all  indicative  of 
prise  and  push  that  marks  the 
Control  and  Management,  and  the 
is  being  awakened  in  all  parts  of 

The  seventh  anniversary  coming  on 
cial  arrangements  have  been  made  for  a  grand 
the  Armory,  to  be  followed  by  a  mass-meeting  in 
on  the  afternoon  of  Sunday,  May  17th.  It  was  on  the  spot  where  this  Memorial  Church 
now  stands  that  the  movement  which,  under  God,  was  to  be  of  such  tremendous  import 
to  the  Church,  was  inaugurated.  The  pictures  herewith  presented  will  prove  interest¬ 
ing  as  connected  with  the  history  of  the  progress  and  wonderful  development  of  the 
Epworth  League. 


NATIONAL  CITY  EVANGELIZATION  UNION. 

A  preliminary  meeting  was  held  in  Cleveland  in  1891.  The  Union  was  organized 
in  Pittsburg,  March,  1892.  Its  object  is  “  To  bring  into  fraternally  intimate  and  mu¬ 
tually  helpful  relations  all  local  organizations  in  the  cities  of  the  United  States,  working 
for  cit)'  evangelization  under  the  auspices  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.”  It  was 
approved  by  the  General  Conference  of  1892  in  §  364  of  the  Discipline.  Its  Annual  Con¬ 
ventions  have  been  held  in  New  York,  Cincinnati,  Buffalo,  and  Baltimore.  Its  sixth 
Convention  is  to  meet  in  Chicago  in  November,  1896.  The  following  local  organizations 
send  representatives  to  these  Conventions  :  “  City  Church  Extension  and  Missionary 
Society,  Church  and  Sunday-school  Alliance,  Church  Society,  City  Church  Extension 
Society,  Methodist  Episcopal  Union,  City  Evangelization  Union.”  The  detailed  reports 
of  these  local  societies,  the  discussions,  addresses,  and  papers  published  in  the  reports  of 
the  National  Conventions,  and  the  greater  emphasis  given  to  city  evangelization  in  all  our 
Church  papers,  are  giving  the  Church  a  clearer  knowledge  of  these  “  City  Home  Mis¬ 
sionary  Societies,”  and  of  their  value  and  work. 

Existing  local  organizations  have  been  stimulated  by  being  brought  into  touch  with 
each  other,  and  decadent  societies  have  been  reorganized  and  quickened  into  newness  of 
life.  The  original  twenty  organizations  in  affiliation  with  the  National  Union  have  now 


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increased  to  about  fifty.  All  cities  of  over  100,000  have  now  organized,  and  many 
lesser  cities. 

On  “  City  Home  Mission  Day  ”  each  Society  asks  for  a  collection  from  every  chy 
Church.  The  amount  raised  by  thirty  Unions  the  past  year  was  $175,000,  being  an  ad¬ 
vance  of  $31,000  over  the  preceding  year. 

Several  Unions  publish  a  monthly  in  aid  of  their  work,  and  about  one-fourth  employ 
a  city  mission  superintendent  to  supervise  and  push  the  work.  On  another  page  we  pre¬ 
sent  a  cut  of  a  most  effective  instrumentality  in  the  hands  of  a  live  mission  superinten¬ 
dent  for  city  evangelization — The  “  Gospel  Wagon  ” — now  in  successful  use  in  Cincin¬ 
nati  under  the  auspices  of  the  Methodist  City  Society. 

For  a  fuller  statement  of  the  work  being  accomplished,  see  the  report  of  the  corre¬ 
sponding  secretary  of  the  National  City  Evangelization  Union  to  this  General  Conference. 


THE  AMERICAN  BIBLE  SOCIETY. 

This  Society  is  regularly  indorsed  by  the  General  Conference  as  its  accredited 
agent  for  the  circulation  of  the  Bible. 

The  issues  of  the  Society  during  seventy-nine  years  amount  to  59,955,558  copies. 

There  has  been  circulated  in  foreign  lands,  during  the  past  year,  nearly  seven  hun¬ 
dred  thousand  copies,  while  the  total  amount  expended  was  $184,538. 

In  the  United  States  the  work  is  done  chiefly  through  Auxiliary  Societies,  and  the 
discounts  made,  and  the  appropriations,  both  of  funds  and  the  Scriptures,  are  large  and 
gratefully  appreciated. 


THE  PERMANENT  COMMITTEE  ON  TEMPERANCE  AND 

PROHIBITION. 

The  position  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  on  the  temperance  question  is 
well  known.  For  many  years,  by  its  strong  utterances,  it  has  borne  the  banner  of  tem¬ 
perance  reform  in  the  van  of  the  temperance  legions  of  this  country.  It  has  concen¬ 
trated  attention  more  and  more  upon  the  great  evils  of  the  traffic  in  intoxicating 
drinks ;  that  it  can  never  be  legalized  without  sin ;  and  that  license,  high  or  low,  is 
vicious  in  principle  and  powerless  as  a  remedy. 

“  We  declare,  before  all  the  world,  that  the  Church  of  God  ought  to  be  known  al¬ 
ways  and  everywhere  as  the  relentless  and  uncompromising  foe  to  this  ungodly  busi¬ 
ness,  and  that  it  is  the  duty  of  every  Christian  to  wage  ceaseless  warfare  against  it.” 

Until  1892  there  had  been  no  organization  authorized  to  speak  or  act  for  the  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Church  in  the  intervals  of  her  General  Conferences.  It  had  become 
more  and  more  manifest  that  the  weakness  of  the  temperance  cause  was  due  to  the 
lack  of  unity  of  the  temperance  forces,  and  all  efforts  to  unite  them  had  proved  of 
little  avail. 

In  Pennsylvania,  during  the  campaign  for  constitutional  prohibition,  Dr.  A.  J. 
Kynett  led  the  way  to  the  organization,  September  26,  1889,  of  the  Union  Prohibitory 
League  of  that  State.  It  was  an  effort  to  bring  together  friends  of  temperance  without 
distinction  of  political  party  or  religious  sect. 

The  attention  of  the  General  Conference  of  1892  was  invited  to  this  plan  of  action. 
It  was  known  that  for  many  years  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
had  been  represented,  in  the  intervals  of  its  sessions,  by  a  Permanent  Committee  on 
Temperance.  On  report  of  this  committee,  the  General  Assembly  had  declared  that 


THE  GOSPEL  WAGON,  CINCINNATI  (CHURCH  EXTENSION  SOCIETY. 


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“  The  pronounced  and  stupendous  need  of  the  hour  to  meet  this  enemy  of  everything 
American  and  Christian  is  an  aroused  Church,  consecrated  to  the  extermination  of  the 
liquor-traffic.”  The  Committee  of  the  General  Conference  of  1892  incorporated  in  its 
report  a  recommendation  : 

“  1.  That  a  permanent  committee  of  fifteen,  to  be  called  the  Permanent  Committee 
on  Temperance  and  Prohibition,  so  located  that  a  majority  may  conveniently  assemble 
for  conference,  be  appointed  by  this  General  Conference,  with  power  to  act,  within  the 
authorized  declarations  of  our  Church,  to  promote  the  following  ends  : 

“First.  The  organization  in  every  Church,  under  the  direction  of  the  pastor  and 
Quarterly  Conference,  of  a  Christian  Temperance  Teague,  to  include  all  members  of  the 
congregation  willing  to  unite,  for  practical  effort,  in  suppressing  the  liquor-traffic. 

“ Second .  The  alliance  of  such  leagues  with  one  another  and  with  similar  leagues  of 
other  religious  bodies  for  such  particular  measures  in  this  behalf  as  their  combined  wis¬ 
dom  and  Christian  conscience  may  approve. 

“2.  That  said  committee  be  authorized  to  correspond  with  similar  committees  of 
other  Churches  with  a  view  to  an  alliance  of  all  Christian  people,  to  strive  together  for 
the  suppression  of  this  great  evil  throughout  the  country  and  the  world.” 

The  report  of  this  committee  will  be  looked  for  with  interest,  and  its  recommenda¬ 
tions  will  claim  the  attention  of  the  General  Conference. 


THE  EIETH  COLLECTION, 


Other  organizations  and 
.  Methodist  block,  san  DiEoo.  California.  institutions  there  are — philan¬ 

thropic,  charitable,  intellect¬ 
ual,  spiritual — all  betokening  the  activity  of  the  Church  in  the  accomplishment  of  her 
mission.  Still,  what  vast  numbers  are  yet  unreached  !  How  rapidly  the  fields  are  ripen¬ 
ing,  awaiting  the  thrusting  in  of  the  sickle !  How  dark  the  gloom  yet  to  be  dispersed  ! 


Though  mentioned  last,  is  far  from  least  in  the  estimation  and  interest  of  the  Church. 
The  Book  Concern  will  this  year  give  to  the  Conferences  $125,000  for  the  benefit  of  the 

Superannuates.  Plans  have 
been  under  careful  considera¬ 
tion  looking  to  uniformity  of 
action,  individual  Conferences 
having  organizations  of  differ¬ 
ent  kinds ;  our  best  men  are 
giving  the  whole  subject  ear¬ 
nest  thought,  and  erelong,  if 
not  at  this  General  Confer¬ 
ence,  some  method  will  be  de¬ 
vised  whereby  the  “  wornout 
preachers”  of  our  Church  will 
receive  alike  adequate  and 
honorable  support  as  they 
wait  for  the  change  and  the 
‘‘home  over  there.” 


“  The  restless  millions  wait 

That  light  whose  dawning  maketh  all  things  new 
Christ  also  waits  ;  but  men  are  slow  and  late. 

Have  we  done  what  we  could  ?  Have  I  ?  Have  you  ?” 


ENERAL  fSoNEERENCE 


DELEGATES. 


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I.  PORTRAITS  AND  SKETCHES. 


ail  things  are  pours ; 

SnD  pe  are  Christ's ; 
anD  Christ  is  ©oD’s. 

—Paul. 


ffatne  with  men, 

JBeing  but  ampler  means  to  serve  manktnD, 
Sboulh  have  small  rest  or  pleasure  in  itself, 

JBut  work  as  vassal  to  the  larger  love 
Chat  Dwarfs  the  pettp  love  of  one  to  one. 

— Tennyson 

fc 


Xove  thpsclf  last:  cherish  those  hearts  that  bate  thee; 
Corruption  wins  not  more  than  bonestp. 

Still  in  tbp  right  banD  carrp  gentle  peace, 

flo  silence  envious  tongues.  J8e  just  anD  fear  not ; 

Hot  all  the  enDs  thou  airn'st  at  he  tbp  eountrp’s, 
fTbp  ©oD’s,  anD  truth's. 

—  Shakespeare. 


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


HEN  it  was  arranged  by  the  Entertainment  Committee  to  have 
prepared  a  General  Conference  Souvenir,  the  editors  selected 
decided  at  once  that,  if  possible,  the  portraits  and  sketches 
of  delegates  elect,  running  through  current  issues  of  the 
Northwestern  Christian  Advocate ,  should  be  secured.  There¬ 
with  the  hearty  approval  of  the  publishers,  Cranston  &  Curts, 
letter  was  addressed  to  Dr.  Arthur  Edwards,  the  editor,  recpiesting 
favor  of  the  use  of  the  plates  and  electrotype  pages,  assuring  him 
>ur  appreciation  of  the  enterprise  of  the  Northwestern  in  making 
valuable  matter  available,  and  expressing  beforehand  our  grate¬ 
ful  acknowledgments  should  our  request  be  granted,  in  that  thereby 
the  usefulness  of  the  forthcoming  book  would  be  greatly  enhanced.  A  most  courteous 
reply  was  received,  expressing  entire  willingness  to  have  the  materials  used  in  the  way 
proposed— although  plans  had  been  made  to  issue  them  from  his  office  with  the  com¬ 
pliments  of  the  Northwestern  to  the  members  of  the  General  Conference — and  kindly 
offering  aid  in  every  possible  way,  with  the  understanding  that  the  paper  be  duly 
credited  for  the  matter  thus  furnished. 

It  is  with  pleasure,  therefore,  that  we  present  to  our  readers  these  portraits  and 
sketches,  thankful  that,  for  their  benefit,  we  have '  been  enabled  to  make  such  satis¬ 
factory  arrangements.  Editors. 


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PLATE  I 


Jason  Nelson  FradeDburgh,  ministerial  delegate 
Erie  conference;  born  Gouverneur,  N.  Y.,  March  4, 
1844;  pastor  First  church,  Greenville,  Pa. ;  teacher 
and  author  of  works  on  ancient  religious;  joined  the 
church  Go verneur,  N.  Y.,  1860;  entered  ministry  Gen¬ 
esee  conference,  1866;  member  ecumenical  conferen¬ 
ces  London,  1881,  and  Washington  1891. 

John  Cook  Scofield,  ministerial  delegate  Erie  con¬ 
ference;  born  Tomkins  county,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  26,  1828; 
presiding-elder  New  Castle  district;  joined  the 
church  Blockville,  N.  Y.,  1841;  entered  ministry  Erie 
conference  1857. 

William  Koeneke,  ministerial  delegate  St.  Louis 
German  conference;  born  Marietta,  Ohio,  March  13, 
1838;  resides  Belleville,  Ill.;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Quincy,  Ill.,  1849;  entered  ministry  South¬ 
ern  Illinois  conference  1857 ;  member  of  General  con¬ 
ference  1872, 1876,  1888,  1892;  reserve  1880. 

William  Howard  Hickman,  ministerial  delegate 
Northwest  Indiana  conference;  born  Oct.  15,  1844, 
Crab  Orchard  Springs,  Ky. ;  joined  the  church  How 
Creek,  Ind.,  July  26,  1866;  joined  Northwest  Indiana 
conference  1873 ;  pastor  First  church,  Terre  Haute; 
member  of  General  conference  1888,  alternate  1892. 

Charles  W.  Bennett,  lay  delegate  Cincinnati  con¬ 
ference;  born  PIqua,  Ohio,  where  he  has  been  super¬ 
intendent  city  schools  for  twenty-two  years;  joined 
the  church  Delaware,  Ohio,  1863;  local  preacher. 

Bartholomew  Lampert,  ministerial  delegate  Chi¬ 
cago  German  conference ;  born  near  West  Bend,  Wis., 
Aug.  3,  1846;  resides  Chicago,  Ill.;  presiding-elder ; 
joined  the  church  West  Bend,  Wis.,  Aug.  10,  1856; 
entered  ministry  Northwest  German  conference  1871. 

Camden  McCormick  Cobern,  ministerial  delegate 
Detroit  conference;  born  Uniontown,  Pa.,  April  19, 
1855;  pastor  Ann  Arbor,  Mlcb.;  joined  the  church 
Uniontown,  Pa.,  1872;  entered  ministry  Erie  confer* 
ence  1876. 

Franz  Ludwig  Nagler,  ministerial  delegate  North¬ 
ern  German  conference;  born  Muehldrof,  Saxony, 
Germany  Dec.  20,  1849;  resides  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  edi¬ 
tor  of  Haus  und  Herd  and  German  Sunday-school 
literature;  joined  the  church  Grand  Rapids,  Mich., 
1868;  entered  ministry  Central  German  conference 
1870. 

Leonidas  Worthy  Thrall,  ministerial  delegate 
Southern  Illinois  conference;  born  Bone  Gap,  Ill., 
Feb.  21,  1850;  resides  Salem,  Ill.;  presiding-elder 
Vandalia  district;  joined  the  church  Bone  Gap,  Ill., 
1861;  entered  ministry  Southern  Illinois  conference 
1872. 

Allen  Lewis,  ministerial  delegate  Northwest  In¬ 
diana  conference;  born  Parke  county,  Ind.,  April  15, 
1847;  pastor  First  church,  Valparaiso,  Ind.;  joined 


the  church  Parke  county,  Ind.,  1866;  entered  minis¬ 
try  Northwest  Indiana  conference  1873. 

Frank  Milton  Bristol,  ministerial  delegate  Rock 
River  conference;  born  Orleans  county,  N.  Y  ,  Jan, 
4, 1851;  pastor  First  church,  Evanston,  Ill. ;  joined  the 
church  Kankakee,  Ill.,  1868;  entered  the  ministry 
Rock  River  conference,  1877;  member  General  con¬ 
ference  1888,  1892. 

James  Henry  Potts,  ministerial  delegate  Michigan 
conference;  born  Canada,  June  12,  1848;  editor 
Michigan  Christian  Advocate,  Detroit ;  entered  ministry 
1869;  member  General  conference  1888,  1892;  frater¬ 
nal  delegate  Canada  General  conference  1894. 

Chas.  Christian  Harms,  ministerial  delegate  West 
German  conference;  born  Red  Bud,  Ill.,  Dec.  27, 1845; 
pastor  St.  Joseph,  Mo. ;  joined  the  church,  Kingston, 
Ill. ;  June,  1858;  entered  ministry  Southwest  German 
conference  1868. 

Wm.  Henry  Wilder,  ministerial  delegate  Illinois 
conference;  born  near  Greenfield,  Ill.,  July  7, 1849; 
president  Illinois  Wesleyan  university,  Bloomington, 
Ill. ;  joined  the  church  Rubicon  church  near  Green¬ 
field,  Ill.,  1863;  entered  ministry  Illinois  conference 
1873 ;  member  General  conference  1888. 

N.  G.  Van  Sant,  lay  delegate  Rock  River  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Rock  Island,  Ill.,  1847;  lumber  merchant, 
Rock  Falls ;  active  In  church,  league,  Young  Men’s 
Christian  association  and  Sunday  school  work. 

Marius  J.  Pihl,  lay  delegate  Norwegian-Danish 
conference;  born  Bornholm,  Denmark,  Dec.  8,  1847; 
banker  Wells,  Minn. ;  joined  the  church  Chicago  1876; 
local  elder. 

Herbert  G.  Whitlock,  lay  delegate  Illinois  confer¬ 
ence;  born  near  Jacksonville,  Ill.,  Nov.  24,  1835;  at¬ 
torney-at-law,  Jacksonville,  Ill.;  joined  the  church 
near  Jacksonville,  May  7, 1854;  trustee. 

George  O.  Robinson,  lay  delegate  Detroit  confer¬ 
ence;  born  South  Reading,  Vt.,  June  14,  1832;  resides 
Detroit,  Mich. ;  retired  lawyer  and  dealer  in  pine 
timber  lands  ;  joined  the  church  Burlington,  Vt , 
1856;  president  board  trustees  Central  church, 
Detroit;  president  board  trustees  Detroit  Deaconess 
home,  and  board  directors  Methodist  Publishing 
company. 

John  Richard  Lindgren,  lay  delegate  Central 
Swedish  conference;  born  Chicago,  Feb.  20,  1855;  re¬ 
sides  at  Evanston,  Ill.;  cashier  State  bank  of  Cal- 
cago;  joined  the  church  1871;  trustee;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1888,  1892. 

James  I.  Buell,  ministerial  delegate  Michigan  con¬ 
ference;  born  New  Haven,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  4,  1831;  pre¬ 
siding-elder  Ionia  district;  joined  the  church  New 
Haven,  N.  Y.,  1850;  entered  ministry  Michigan  con¬ 
ference  1856. 


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48  . 


PLATE  I. —  1.  J.  N.  Fradenburgh.  2.  J.  C.  Scotield.  3.  Wm.  Koeneke.  -4.  W.  H.  Hickman.  5.  C.  W.  BejmetrtT 
6.  B.  Lampert.  7.  C.  M.  Cobern.  8.  F.  L.  Nagler.  9.  L.  W.  Thrall.  10  Allen  Lewis.  11.  Frank  M  Bristol.  12.  J.  II. 
Potts.  13.  Charles  Harms.  14,  W.  H.  Wilder.  15.  N.  G.  Van  Sant.  16.  M.  J.  Pihl.  17.  H.  G.  Whitlock.  18.  Geo.  O. 
Robinson.  19  John  R.  Lindgrea.  20.  J.  J.  Buell. 


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49 


PLATE  II, 


Isaac  P.  Teter,  ministerial  delegate  Iowa  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Lewis  county,  Va.,  May  1,  1830;  pastor 
Ottumwa,  Iowa;  joined  the  church  1813;  entered  the 
ministry  1853;  served  as  state  senator. 

Newell  Simpson  Albright,  ministerial  delegate 
North  Ohio  conference;  born  Columbus  Grove,  Ohio, 
June  9,  1849;  pastor  Bucyrus,  Ohio ;  joined  the  church 
Jeromesvllle,  Ohio,  1861;  entered  ministry  St.  Louis 
conference  1876;  transferred  to  North  Ohio,  1876;  re¬ 
serve  delegate  1892. 

Isaac  Crook,  ministerial  delegate  Nebraska  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Crossanville,  Ohio;  resides  University 
Place,  Neb. ;  president  Nebraska  Wesleyan  universi¬ 
ty;  joined  the  church  Delaware,  Ohio,  1853;  entered 
ministry  Ohio  1859. 

James  W.  Haney,  ministerial  delegate  Central  Illi¬ 
nois  conference;  born  Bloomington,  Ill.,  Jan.  24, 
1840;  resides  Normal,  Ill.;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Bushnell,  Ill  ,  in  1862;  entered  ministry 
Central  Illinois  conference  1863;  reserve  delegate 
1888. 

William  Riley  Halstead,  ministerial  delegate  In¬ 
diana  conference;  born  Riley,  Ind.,  March  19,1848; 
resides  Evansville,  Ind. ;  presiding-elder ;  joined  the 
church  Riley,  Ind.,  January,  1870;  entered  ministry 
1872;  member  General  conference  1S88,  1892. 

Charles  Henry  Long,  B.S  ,  M.D.,  lay  delegate  Cen¬ 
tral  Illinois  conference;  born  La  Salle,  Ill.,  May  14, 
1850;  resides  Pontiac,  III  ;  engaged  in  practice  of 
medicine  and  surgery;  joined  the  church  La  Salle, 
Ill  ,  1866;  now  and  for  seventeen  years  Sunday-school 
superintendent  and  steward. 

Samuel  Dickie,  lay  delegate  Michigan  conference; 
born  Oxford  county,  Canada,  June  6,  1851;  resides 
Albion,  Mich. ;  lecturer  and  chairman  of  national 
committee,  Prohibition  party;  joined  the  church  Al¬ 
bion,  Mich.,  1869;  church  trustee;  member  General 
conference  1892. 

Zachariah  Xenophon  Snyder,  lay  delegate  Colorado 
conference;  born  Reagantown  Aug.  31,  1850;  resides 
Greeley,  Col. ;  president  state  normal  school,  Colo¬ 
rado;  joined  the  church  1866;  steward. 

William  H.  Logan,  lay  delegate  Central  Illinois  con¬ 
ference;  born  Newtown,  Ind.,  Feb.  19,1843;  resides 
Seaton,  Mercer  county,  Ill. ;  farmer  and  stock-raiser; 
joined  the  church  Belmont  February,  1872;  Sunday- 
school  suoerintendent,  steward,  trustee;  reserve 
delegate  1892. 

Darius  H.  Muller,  ministerial  delegate  East  Ohio 
conference;  born  Baltimore,  Md. ;  resides  Cleve¬ 
land,  Ohio;  presiding-elder;  entered  ministry  1861  in 
Wisconsin. 

Adna  B.  Leonard,  ministerial  delegate  Cincinnati 
conference;  born  Berlin,  Ohio,  Aug.  2,  1837;  resides 
New  York  city;  corresponding  secretary  Missionary 
society;  joined  the  church  Lexington,  Ohio,  1856; 


entered  ministry  Pittsburg  conference  1S60;  member 
General  conference  1884,  1888,  1892. 

James  Bartlett  Hobbs,  lay  delegate  Rock  River 
conference;  born  Sabattis,  Maine,  Jan.  10,  1830;  re¬ 
sides  Chicago,  Ill.;  retired  from  active  business; 
joined  the  church  Chicago  1885 ;  trustee  Grace  church 
and  active  worker  in  all  denominational  movements. 

Henry  Bendixen,  lay  delegate  Northern  German 
conference;  born  Germany,  Sept.  29,  1854;  merchant, 
Springfield,  Minn. ;  joined  the  church  Albert  Lea, 
Minn.,  1875;  Sunday-school  superintendent  and  local 
preacher. 

William  Schutz,  ministerial  delegate  St.  Louis  Ger¬ 
man  conference;  born  Willsdorf,  Westphalia,  Prus¬ 
sia,  Feb.  22,  1847 ;  came  to  this  country  1852 ;  resides 
Quincy,  Ill. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  Peru, 
Ill  ,  1865;  entered  ministry  1870;  joined  St.  Louis 
German  conference  1871. 

Jacob  Tanner,  ministerial  delegate  West  German 
conference;  born  Bargen,  Canton  Schaffhausen, 
Switzerland,  April  5,  1839;  resides  Lincoln,  Neb.; 
presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  Highland,  Ill., 
1859;  entered  ministry  Southern  Illinois  conference 
1862 ;  member  General  conference  1888. 

Emil  Karpowsky,  lay  delegate  Chicago  German 
conference;  born  Germany,  Sept.  15,  1854;  resides 
Chicago,  Ill. ;  newspaper  writer  and  advertising 
agent;  joined  the  church  Cleveland,  Ohio,  1881;  local 
preacher,  steward,  class-leader. 

Martin  E.  Cady,  ministerial  delegate  Rock  River 
conference;  born  Mlddlebury,  Vt  ,  May  12,1846;  re¬ 
sides  Aurora,  Ill. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church 
Middlebury,  Vt.,  in  1866;  entered  ministry  Troy  con¬ 
ference  1875. 

Jervice  Gaylord  Evans,  ministerial  delegate  Cen¬ 
tral  Illinois  conference;  born  Marsha’l  county,  III., 
Dec.  19,  1833;  president  Hedding  college,  Abingdon, 
III. ;  joined  the  church  Cherry  Point,  Marshall  coun¬ 
ty,  Ill.,  Dec.  6,  1849;  entered  ministry  Rock  River 
conference  1854;  member  General  conference  1876, 
1884,  1892;  delegate  Centennial  conference  1884. 

Elvin  Swarthout,  lay  delegate  Michigan  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Ovid,  Clinton  county,  Mich.,  Oct.  5,  1864; 
attorney-at-law  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.;  joined  the 
church  Ovid,  Mich.,  1875;  steward;  Sunday-school 
superintendent,  a  teacher  Sunday-school,  secretary 
Epworth  league  training-assembly  (Ludington),  sec¬ 
retary  board  trustees  of  Grand  Rapids  Deaconess 
home;  alternate  delegate  General  conference  1892, 

Fredrich  H  A.  Koch,  lay  delegate  St.  Louis  Ger¬ 
man  conference;  born  Llppe  -  Detmold,  Germany, 
Sept.  26,  1845;  resides  Burlington,  Iowa;  secretary 
and  manager  German  American  Mutual  Life  associa¬ 
tion;  jo'ned  the  church  Pittsfield,  Ill.,  September, 
1867;  steward,  local  deacon,  Sunday-school  superin¬ 
tendent. 


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50 


PLATE  II.— 1.  Isaac  P.  Teter.  2.  N.  P.  Albright.  Isaac  Crook.  4  James  W.  Haney.  5.  William  Riley  Hal¬ 
stead.  6.  C.  H.  Long.  7.  Samuel  Dickie.  8.  Z.  X.  Snyder.  9.  W.  H.  Logan.  10.  D.  H.  Muller.  11.  A*  B.  Leonard. 
12.  James  B.  Hobbs.  13.  H.  Bendixen.  14.  William  Schutz.  15.  Jacob  Tanner.  16.  Emil  Karpowsky.  17.  M.  E.  Cady. 
38  J.  G.  Evans.  19.  Elvin  Swarthout.  20.  F.  H.  A.  Koch. 


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51 


PLATE  III 


James  M.  Kittleman,  lay  delegate  Des  Moines  con¬ 
ference,  born  Bloomfield,  Iowa,  Aug.  28,  1857 ;  mer¬ 
chant;  Indianola,  Iowa;  joined  the  church  Bloom¬ 
field,  Iowa,  February,  1877;  steward,  class-leader, 
and  president  of  conference  Epworth  league. 

Joseph  Kern,  ministerial  delegate  Central  German 
conference,  born  Roseville,  Mich.  Sept.  15,  1847 ; 
pastor  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. ;  joined  the  church 
Roseville,  Mich.,  July,  1870;  entered  ministry  Cen¬ 
tral  German  conference  1872. 

John  Schlagenhauf,  ministerial  delegate  St.  Louis 
German  conference,  born  Germany,  Jan.  19,  1884; 
pastor  Belleville,  Ill. ;  joined  the  church  Mount 
Healthy,  Ohio,  1854;  entered  ministry  Illinois  con¬ 
ference  1857 ;  member  General  conference  1872,  1880, 
1884. 

Abram  Reginald  Colburn,  lay  delegate  Northwest 
Indiana  conference,  born  Canada,  Dec.  9, 1846;  whole¬ 
sale  lumber  merchant,  Michigan  City,  Ind. ;  joined  the 
church  Michigan  City,  Ind.,  1872;  trustee,  class- 
leader,  superintendent  Sabbath -'school ;  member 
General  conference  1888. 

Morris  Sharp,  lay  delegate  Ohio  conference,  born 
Aberdeen,  Ohio,  Aug.  30,  1838;  banker,  farmer,  and 
stockman,  Washington  Court  House,  Ohio ;  joined  the 
church  Jamestown,  Ohio,  1858;  recording  steward 
and  trustee;  candidate  for  governor  of  Ohio  on  Pro¬ 
hibition  ticket  1887. 

Andrew  Jackson  Merchant,  ministerial  delegate 
Erie  conference,  born  Napoli,  N.  Y.,  Dec,  23,1831; 
pastor  First  church,  Punxsutawney,  Pa. ;  joined  the 
church  Napoli  Hill,  N.  Y.,  1840;  entered  ministry 
Erie  conference  1857. 

Amos  Montraville  Gould, ministerial  delegate  Michi¬ 
gan  conference,  born  Moscow,  Mich.,  Dec.  29,  1845; 
pastor  at  Coldwater,  Mich. ;  joined  the  church  Jack- 
son,  Mich.,  1869;  entered  ministry  Michigan  confer¬ 
ence  1875;  member  of  Washington  ecumenical  con¬ 
ference. 

Warren  F.  Walworth,  lay  delegate  East  Ohio  con¬ 
ference,  born  Jefferson  county,  N  Y.,  Aug.  21,  1838; 
manufacturer  Cleveland,  Ohio;  joined  the  church 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  1867;  steward. 

Wm.  H.  Lewis,  ministerial  delegate  from  confer¬ 
ence,  born  Madison  county,  Ohio,  Jan.  17,  1848;  re¬ 
sides  Lancaster,  Ohio;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Lower  Glade,  March  10,  1870 ;  entered  min¬ 
istry  Ohio  conference  1877. 

James  Whitford  Bashford,  ministerial  delegate 
Cincinnati  conference,  born  Fayette,  Wis.,  May  25, 
1849;  president  Ohio  Wesleyan  university,  Delaware, 
Ohio;  joined  the  church  Fayette,  Wis.,  1867;  entered 
ministry  New  England  conference  1879. 

David  Hastings  Moore,  ministerial  delegate  Ohio 
conference,  born  Athens,  Ohio,  Sept.  4,  1838;  editor 


TFestem  Christian  Advocate,  Cincinnati,  Ohio ;  joined 
the  church  Athens,  Ohio,  1855;  entered  ministry 
Ohio  conference  1860;  member  General  conference 

1888,  1892. 

Oscar  J.  Swan,  ministerial  delegate  Western  Swed¬ 
ish  conference,  born  Linkoping,  Sweden,  Sept.  7, 1848 ; 
came  to  America  1868;  resides  Des  Moines,  Iowa; 
presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  Swedona,  Ill., 
Sept.  4,1870;  entered  ministry  Central  Illinios  con¬ 
ference  1875;  united  with  Northwest  Swedish  confer¬ 
ence  in  1877. 

John  C.  Arbuckle,  ministerial  delegate  Ohio  confer¬ 
ence,  born  Glasgow,  Scotland,  July  27,  1847;  pastor 
Second  street  church,  Zanesville,  Ohio;  joined  the 
church  Delaware,  Ohio,  May,  1869;  entered  ministry 
Ohio  conference  1874;  member  General  conference 
1892. 

Hillary  Asbury  Gobin,  ministerial  delegate  North¬ 
west  Indiana  conference,  born  Terre  Haute,  Ind., 
March  25,  1842;  acting- president  De  Pauw  univers¬ 
ity,  Greencastle,  Ind. ;  joined  the  church  Terre  Hante, 
Ind.,  Jan.  15,  1859;  entered  ministry  1869;  member 
General  conference  1892. 

David  Young  Murdoch,  ministerial  delegate  Ohio 
conference,  born  Duncan’s  Falls,  Ohio,  June  5, 1848; 
pastor  Athens,  Ohio ;  joined  the  church  Zanesville, 
Ohio,  1866;  entered  ministry  Ohio  conference  1872; 
secretary  conference. 

John  I.  Wilson,  ministerial  delegate  East  Ohio 
conference,  born  Freeport,  Ohio,  June  14,  1840;  re¬ 
sides  Cambridge,  Ohio;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Freeport  1858;  entered  ministry  Pittsburg 
conference  1871 ;  member  General  conference  1892. 

James  T.  Wigren,  ministerial  delegate  Central 
Swedish  conference,  born  Attica,  Ind.,  Jan.  13, 1854; 
resides  Galva,  Ill. ;  preslding-elder ;  joined  the  church 
Swedona,  Ill.,  1868;  entered  ministry  Central  Illinois 
conference  1876. 

Silas  Hancox  Prather,  ministerial  delegate  Erie 
conference,  born  near  Titusville,  Pa.,  April  17,  1846; 
resides  Meadville,  Pa.;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Epworth,  Iowa,  1868 ;  entered  ministry  Erie 
conference  1883. 

William  T.  Smith,  ministerial  delegate  Des  Moines 
conference,  born  Sangamon  county,  Ill.,  July  21, 1841; 
resides  Creston,  Iowa;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Doylestown,  Pa.,  1863;  entered  ministry  Des 
Moines  conference  1865;  member  General  confer¬ 
ence  1888. 

George  M.  Booth,  ministerial  delegate  Columbia 
River  conference,  born,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  Jan.  2, 
1852;  resides  Spokane,  Wash. ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church,  Wilbur,  Oregon,  1868 ;  entered  ministry 
Columbia  River  conference  1882;  member  General 
conference  1892. 


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52 


PLATE  III. — 1.  James  M.  Kittleman.  2.  Joseph  Kern.  3.  John  Schlagenhauf.  4.  A.  R.  Colborn.  5.  Morris  Sharp. 
5.  A.  J.  Merchant.  7.  A.  M.  Gould.  8.  W.  F.  Walworth.  9.  W.  H.  Lewis.  10.  J.  W.  Bashford.  11.  David  H.  Moore. 
12.  O.  J.  Swan.  13.  J.  C.  Arbuckle.  14.  H.  A.  Gobin.  15.  D.  Y.  Murdoch.  16.  J.  I.  Wilson.  17.  James  T.  Wigren. 
18.  S.  H.  Prather.  19.  W.  T.  Smith.  20.  George  M.  Booth. 


From  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate,  October  23,  1895. 

53 


PLATE  IV, 


J.  B.  Wolfe,  ministerial  delegate  from  Illinois  con¬ 
ference;  born  in  Bond  county,  Ill.,  May  14,  1843;  re¬ 
sides  at  Bloomington,  Ill.;  presiding-elder;  entered 
the  ministry  in  Illinois  conference  in  1867. 

Marion  Victor  Crumbaker,  ministerial  delegate 
from  Central  Illinois  conference;  born  at  Adamsville, 
Ohio,  Feb.  20, 1847;  resides  at  Rock  Island,  Ill. ;  pre¬ 
siding-elder;  joined  the  church  at  Lawndale,  Feb.  2, 
1868 ;  entered  the  ministry  in  Central  Illinois  confer¬ 
ence  in  1874. 

Charles  A.  Hale,  ministerial  delegate  from  West 
Nebraska  conference;  born  at  Clyde,  N.  Y.,  March  9, 
1845;  resides  at  Orleans,  Neb. ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  at  Morris  Chapel,  Mo.,  in  1867;  entered 
the  ministry  in  West  Nebraska  Mission  conference 
in  1882. 

Christie  Galeener,  ministerial  delegate  from  Illi¬ 
nois  conference;  born  at  Lebanon,  Ohio,  Feb.  24, 
1854;  resides  at  Decatur,  Ill. ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  at  Vermillion,  Ill.,  in  1870;  entered  the 
ministry  in  Illinois  conference  in  1878;  member  of 
General  conference  in  1892 

DeWitt  Clinton  Huntington,  ministerial  delegate 
from  Nebraska  conference;  born  at  Townsend,  Vt., 
April  27,  1830;  pastor  Lincoln,  Neb  ;  joined  the 
church  at  Townsend,  Vt.,  October,  1849;  entered  the 
ministry  in  June,  1851;  member  of  General  confer¬ 
ence  in  1868,  1872,  1876,  1880,  1884,  1888. 

John  T.  McFarland,  ministerial  delegate  from  Illi¬ 
nois  conference;  born  at  Mt.  Vernon,  Ind.,  Jan.  2, 
1851;  pastor  at  Jacksonville,  Ill. ;  joined  the  church 
at  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa,  in  September,  1871 ;  entered 
the  ministry  in  Iowa  conference  in  September,  1873; 
member  of  previous  General  conference  in  1888. 

L.  Orville  Jones,  lay  delegate  from  Nebraska  con¬ 
ference;  born  near  .Berlin,  Wis.,  Nov.  25,  1858;  re¬ 
sides  at  Lincoln,  Neb. ;  merchant;  joined  the  church 
at  Berlin,  Wis.,  in  1876;  Sunday-school  superintend¬ 
ent,  president  Nebraska  conference  Ep worth  league. 

Benjamin  F.  Adams,  lay  delegate  from  Indiana  con¬ 
ference;  born  near  Stanford,  Monroe  county,  Ind., 
Jan.  2,  1827 ;  resides  at  Bloomington,  Ind. ;  engaged 
In  quarrying  stone;  joined  the  church  at  Stanford, 
Ind.,  in  1850;  steward. 

Horace  Reed,  ministerial  delegate  from  Illinois 
conference;  born  in  Geauga  county,  Ohio,  Jan.  9, 
1841;  resides  at  Jacksonville,  Ill.;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  at  Carmel,  Ohio,  in  1856;  entered 
the  ministry  in  Cincinnati  conference  in  1864 ;  mem¬ 
ber  of  General  conference  in  1888. 

William  H.  Stevens,  lay  delegate  from  Wisconsin 
conference;  born  at  Bethlehem,  N.  H.,  Jan.  22,  1843; 
resides  at  Milwaukee,  Wis.;  merchant;  joined  the 
church  at  Milwaukee  in  1868;  steward  and  trustee. 

William  Nelson  McElroy,  ministerial  delegate  Illi¬ 
nois  conference;  born  near  Cadiz,  Harrison  county, 


Ohio,  June  10,  1832;  resides  Springfield,  111.;  presld- 
ing-elder;  joined  the  church  Griggsville,  III.,  Oct. 
1859;  entered  ministry  Illinois  conference  1862;  mem¬ 
ber  General  conference  1876, 18S4,  1888,  1892,  and  Ecu¬ 
menical  conference  1S81. 

Robert  Forbes,  ministerial  delegate  Minnesota 
Northern  conference;  born  Quebec,  Ontario,  Nov.  13, 
1844;  pastor  Duluth,  Minn.;  joined  the  church  Bay- 
field,  Ontario,  1863;  entered  ministry  Minnesota  con¬ 
ference  1870 ;  member  General  conference  1888. 

Williaip  Wallis,  ministerial  delegate  Southern  Illi¬ 
nois  conference;  born  Parsonstown,  Ireland,  June  5, 
1836;  resides  Olney,  Ill. ;  presiding-elder ;  joined  the 
church  McLeansboro,  Ill  .  Aug.,  1851;  entered  minis¬ 
try  Southern  Illinois  conference  Oct.  2, 1865. 

John  Lockwood  Romer,  lay  delegate  Genesee  con¬ 
ference;  born  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  16,1845;  lawyer, 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church  1870;  superintend¬ 
ent  Sunday-school  and  president  Methodist  union. 

John  B.  Maxfield,  ministerial  delegate  North 
Nebraska  conference;  born  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Feb  24, 
1833;  resides  Omaha,  Neb.;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Waymansville,  Ind.,  1856;  entered  minis¬ 
try  Nebraska  conference  1861;  member  General  con¬ 
ference  1872,  1884,  1888,  1892. 

James  Franklin  Chaffee,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Minnesota  Northern  conference;  born  at  Middle- 
bury,  N.  Y  ,  Nov.  25,  1827;  resides  at  Minneapolis, 
Minn.;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  Freewill  Baptist 
church  December,  1840,  and  the  M.  E.  church  at 
Hebron,  Ill.,  1846;  entered  the  ministry  in  Rock 
River  conference  in  1848;  member  of  General  con¬ 
ference  In  1868,  1880,  1884,  1892. 

William  T.  Jennings,  lay  delegate  from  West  Wis¬ 
consin  conference;  born  at  Cliff  Mine,  Mich.,  May  81, 
1858;  resides  at  Platteville,  Wis.;  merchant;  joined 
the  church  at  Hazel  Green,  Wis.,  in  1869;  steward 
and  Sunday-school  superintendent. 

Ebenezer  Herman  Latimer,  ministerial  delegate 
from  Genesee  conference;  born  at  Pike,  N.  Y.,  April 
10,  1842;  resides  at  Oiean,  N.  Y. ;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  at  Junius,  N.  Y.,  in  1859;  entered 
the  ministry  in  Western  New  York  conference  in  1873. 

Thomas  J.  Myers,  ministerial  delegate  from  Iowa 
conference;  born  near  Lafayette,  Ind.,  in  1840;  re¬ 
sides  at  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  in  1857 ;  entered  the  ministry  in  Iowa  con¬ 
ference  in  1869;  member  of  General  conference  In 
1892  and  reserve  delegate  in  1888. 

Milton  Spenser  Terry,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Wisconsin  conference;  born  at  Coeymans,  N.  Y.,  Feb. 
22,  1840;  professor  of  Christian  doctrine  in  Garrett 
Biblical  institute,  Evanston,  Ill. ;  joined  the  church 
at  Coeymans  in  1858;  entered  the  ministry  In  New 
York  conference  In  1863;  member  of  General  confer¬ 
ence  in  1880. 


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PLATE  IV.  — 1.  J.  B.  Wolfe.  2.  M.  V.  Crumbaker.  3.  Charles  A.  Hale.  4.  Christie  Galeener.  5.  D.  W.  C.  Hunt¬ 
ington.  6.  J.  T.  McFarland.  7.  L.  Orville  Jones.  8.  Benjamin  F.  Adams.  9.  Horace  Reed.  10.  W.  H.  Stevens.  11. 
W.  N.  McElroy.  12.  Robert  Forbes.  13  William  Wallis.  14.  John  L.  Romer.  15.  John  B.  Maxfield.  16.  J.  F.  Chaffee. 
17.  W.  T.  Jennings.  18.  E.  H.  Latimer.  19.  T.  J.  Myers.  20.  M.  S.  Terry. 


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55 


PLATE  V. 


Theodore  Bland  Noss,  lay  delegate  Pittsburg  con¬ 
ference;  born  Waterloo,  Pa.,  May  10,  1852;  principal 
state  normal  school,  California,  Pa. ;  joined  the  church 
at  Nossville,  Pa.,  1862;  local  preacher  and  trustee. 

John  A.  Kost,  lay  delegate  West  German  confer¬ 
ence;  born  at  Lexington,  Mo.,  Feb.  26,  1856;  manager 
shipping  department  wholesale  dry  goods  house,  St. 
Joseph,  Mo.;  joined  the  church  at  St.  Joseph,  Mo., 
1869;  steward  and  trustee. 

John  W.  Lothian,  ministerial  delegate  Northwest 
Iowa  conference;  born  in  Scotland  April  14,  1843;  re¬ 
sides  at  Ida  Grove,  Iowa;  presiding-elder ;  joined  the 
church  at  Medford  1865;  entered  the  ministry  1870; 
joined  Northwest  Iowa  conference  1873. 

Henry  James  Talbott,  ministerial  delegate  Indiana 
conference;  born  at  Greencastle,  Ind.,  Jan.  8,1847; 
resides  at  Indianapolis,  Ind.;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  at  Rockport,  Ind.,  1868;  entered  the  min¬ 
istry  Indiana  conference  1873;  member  General  con¬ 
ference  1888,  ecumenical  conference  of  1890. 

Joseph  William  Van  Cleve,  ministerial  delegate 
Southern  Illinois  conference;  born  Macoupin  county, 
Ill.,  Feb.  18,  1859;  pastor  Mt.  Vernon,  Ill. ;  joined  the 
church  Spring  Garden,  Ill.,  1871 ;  entered  the  minis¬ 
try  Southern  Illinois  conference  1880. 

Frederick  Gamer,  lay  delegate  Montana  confer¬ 
ence;  born  at  Baden,  Germany,  Dec.  28,  1844;  mer¬ 
chant,  Helena,  Mont. ;  joined  the  church  Chicago, 
1862 ;  trustee. 

John  Dempster  King,  lay  delegate  North  Ne¬ 
braska  conference;  born  Mt.  Gilead,  Ohio,  Nov.  17, 
1839;  lawyer  and  real  estate  agent,  Wayne,  Neb.; 
joined  the  church  Morrison,  Ill.,  November,  1853; 
steward. 

Henry  P.  Sullivan,  lay  delegate  Erie  conference; 
born  Erie  county,  Pa.,  Oct.  1,  1836;  manager  of  Na¬ 
tional  Snath  company,  Erie,  Pa. ;  joined  the  church 
Geneva,  Ohio,  1858;  trustee. 

Wm  E.  Hamilton,  ministerial  delegate  Des  Moines 
conference;  born  at  New  Richmond,  Ohio,  Oct.  9, 
1845;  professor  of  mental  and  moral  science  Simpson 
college,  Indianola,  Iowa;  joined  the  churcn  at  Mt. 
Carmel,  Ohio,  January,  1855;  entered  the  ministry 
Des  Moines  conference  1867. 

Robert  Talbott  Miller,  lay  delegate  Kentucky  con¬ 
ference;  born  Neville,  Ohio,  May  4,  1834;  resides  at 
Covington,  Ky  ;  joined  the  church  Shelbyville,  Ky., 
Feb.  21,  1851 ;  trustee. 

William  Francis  Whitlock,  ministerial  delegate 
North  Ohio  conference;  born  near  Dayton,  Ohio; 
professor  Latin  language  and  literature  Ohio  Wes¬ 
leyan  university,  Delaware,  Ohio ;  joined  the  church 


Delaware,  Ohio,  1854;  entered  the  ministry  General 
Ohio  conference  1864,  transferred  to  North  Ohio  con¬ 
ference  in  1873.  Member  General  conference  1884, 
1888,  and  1892;  member  of  Book  Committee  since 
1884 ;  since  February,  1893,  chairman. 

George  Burr  Johnson,  lay  delegate  Cincinnati  con¬ 
ference;  born  at  Amelia,  Ohio,  Aug.  16,  1836;  cashier 
Western  Methodist  Book  Concern,  Cincinnati,  Ohio ; 
joined  the  church  Bethel,  Ohio,  1847;  steward. 

Joseph  Oscar  Cunningham,  lay  delegate  Illinois 
conference;  born  at  Lancaster,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  12,1830; 
lawyer  at  Urbana,  Ill. ;  joined  the  church  Urbana, 
Ill.,  Feb.  4,  1866;  trustee. 

Carlton  Cyrenus  Wilbor,  ministerial  delegate  Cen¬ 
tral  New  York  conference;  born  at  Town  Line,  N.  Y., 
Sept.  10,  1842;  resides  Elmira,  N.  Y. ;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  Elma,  Erie  county,  N.  Y.,  1857;  en¬ 
tered  the  ministry  Genesee  conference  1868 ;  member 
of  General  conference  1888. 

Eugene  P.  Edmonds,  ministerial  delegate  East 
Ohio  conference;  born  at  Somerton,  Ohio,  Sept.  12, 
1855;  pastor  of  First  church,  Canton,  Ohio;  joined 
the  church  Dayton,  Pa.,  in  1870;  entered  the  minis¬ 
try  East  Ohio  conference  1877. 

Lewis  C.  Laylin,  lay  delegate  North  Ohio  confer¬ 
ence;  born  at  Norwalk,  Ohio,  Sept.  28,  1848;  lawyer; 
was  member  of  state  legislature  from  1888  to  1894; 
speaker  of  house  of  representatives  two  years;  joined 
the  church  Norwalk,  Ohio,  April  24,1870;  steward 
and  trustee;  reserve  delegate  in  1880. 

John  Mitchell,  ministerial  delegate  North  Ohio 
conference;  born  Bloominggrove,  Ohio;  resides  in 
Cleveland,  Ohio;  presiding-elder ;  joined  the  church 
Crestline,  Ohio,  1856;  entered  the  ministry  North 
Ohio  conference  in  1869 ;  member  General  conference 
1892,  reserve  in  1888. 

James  A.  Sargent,  ministerial  delegate  Indiana  con¬ 
ference;  born  near  Lebanon,  Ohio,  Sept.  10,  1843;  pas¬ 
tor  Hall  Place  church,  Indianapolis,  Ind ;  joined  the 
church  near  Lawrenceburg,  Ind.,  March  20,  1860; 
entered  the  ministry  Southeast  Indiana  conference 
1869 ;  member  General  conference  1892. 

Alfred  Hodgetts,  ministerial  delegate  North  Ne¬ 
braska  conference;  born  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  10, 
1852;  resides  In  Norfolk,  Neb.;  presiding-elder  Nor¬ 
folk  district;  joined  the  church  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
1870;  entered  the  ministry  in  Brooklyn  1872;  joined 
the  Nebraska  conference  in  1878. 

Stephen  Norris  Fellows,  ministerial  delegate  Up¬ 
per  Iowa  conference;  born  at  North  Sandwich,  N.  H., 
May  30,  1830;  pastor  Fayette,  Iowa;  joined  the 
church  near  Dixon,  Ill  ,  Feb.  13,  1846;  entered  the 
ministry  Upper  Iowa  conference  1856. 


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56 


PLATE  V. —  1.  Theo.  B.  Noss.  2.  J.  A.  Kost.  3.  J.  W.  Lothian.  4.  H.  J.  Talbott.  5.  J.  W.  Van  Cleve,  6.  J.  D- 
King.  7.  Fred.  Gamer.  8.  H.  P.  Sullivan.  9.  W.  E.  Hamilton.  10.  R.  T.  Miller.  11.  W.  F.  Whitlock.  12.  George  B. 
Johnson.  13.  J.  O.  Cunningham.  14.  C.  C.  Wilbor.  15.  Eugene  P.  Edmonds.  16.  L.  C.  Laylin.  17.  John  Mitchell. 
18.  J.  A.  Sargent.  19.  Alfred  Hodgetts.  20.  S.  N.  Fellows. 


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57 


PLATE  VI 


Charles  Lewis  Stafford,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Iowa  conference;  born  in  Miami  county,  Ohio,  Sept. 
26,  1844;  president  Iowa  Wesleyan  university,  Mount 
Pleasant,  Iowa;  joined  the  church  at  West  Point, 
Iowa,  in  1861;  entered  the  ministry  in  Iowa  confer¬ 
ence  in  1870;  is  secretary  Iowa  conference ;  member 
general  conference  in  1892. 

William  J.  McKay,  ministerial  delegate  from  West 
Wisconsin  conference;  born  at  Belfast,  Ireland,  May 
29,1847;  resides  at  Madison,  Wis. ;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  at  De  Soto,  Wis.,  March,  1869;  en¬ 
tered  the  ministry  in  West  Wisconsin  conference, 
October,  1870;  member  of  General  conference  in 
1884,  1888. 

Henry  Clay  Woods,  ministerial  delegate  from  Gen¬ 
esee  conference;  born  at  Rushford,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  9, 
1844;  pastor  at  Corning,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church  at 
Rushford,  N.  Y.,  in  1858;  entered  the  ministry  in 
East  Genesee  conference  in  1868;  secretary  of  his 
conference  and  president  of  Silver  Lake  assembly. 

John  Purrer,  lay  delegate  from  German  California 
conference;  born  at  Wyla,  canton  Zurich,  Switzer¬ 
land,  Dec.  8,  1853;  merchant  tailor,  Los  Angeles, 
Cal. ;  joined  the  church  at  Waco,  Texas,  Aug.  5,  1881 ; 
trustee,  steward,  and  exhorter. 

John  H.  Mickey,  lay  delegate  from  Nebraska  con¬ 
ference;  born  near  Burlington,  Iowa,  Sept.  30,  1845; 
president  Osceola  bank,  Osceola,  Neb. ;  joined  the 
church  at  Pairview,  Iowa,  in  1859;  class-leader,  stew¬ 
ard,  and  trustee. 

Jesse  P.  Core,  ministerial  delegate  from  Pittsburg 
conference;  born  at  Hillsboro,  Pa.,  Sept.  15,  1846;  re¬ 
sides  at  Washington,  Pa.;  presiding-elder;  was 
licensed  to  preach  in  1867  in  the  M.  E.  Church  South ; 
joined  Pittsburg  conference  in  1868 ;  member  General 
conference  in  1888. 

Robert  Smylie,  ministerial  delegate  from  North¬ 
west  Iowa  conference;  born  at  Camborne,  Ontario, 
April  29,  1849;  pastor  First  church,  Pt.  Dodge,  Iowa; 
joined  the  church  at  Camborne,  Jan.  2,  1868;  entered 
the  ministry  In  the  Methodist  church  of  Canada  in 
June,  1870;  joined  Northwest  Iowa  conference  in 
1881;  steward,  class-leader. 

Oscar  P.  Miller,  lay  delegate  from  Northwest  Iowa 
conference;  born  in  Chautauqua  county,  N.  Y.,  May 
15,  1850;  banker,  Rock  Rapids,  Iowa;  joined  the 
church  at  Elgin,  Iowa;  superintendent  of  Sunday- 
school,  trustee  and  steward;  alternate  delegate  to 
General  conference  in  1888,  1892. 

John  Alexander  Mansfield,  lay  delegate  from  East 
Ohio  conference;  born  near  Bloomfield,  Ohio,  Sept. 
20,  1854;  resides  at  Steubenville,  Ohio;  is  judge  of 
court  of  common  pleas ;  joined  the  church  at  Hope- 
dale,  Ohio,  in  1874;  steward. 

Charles  H.  Payne,  ministerial  delegate  from  Cin¬ 
cinnati  conference;  born  at  Taunton,  Mass.,  Oct.  24, 
1830;  resides  at  New  York  city;  i3  general  secretary 
of  Educational  society;  entered  the  ministry  in  New 
England  Southern  conference  in  1857 ;  was  president 
of  Ohio  Wesleyan  university  from  1876  to  1888;  mem¬ 
ber  of  General  conference  in  1880,  1884,  1888,  1892. 

S.  Abishai  Morse,  ministerial  delegate  from  Genesee 


conierence;  born  at  Smithville,  Ontario,  May  4, 
1850;  pastor  LInwood-avenue  church,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. ; 
joined  the  church  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  in  1872;  entered 
the  ministry  in  Genesee  conference  in  1874. 

Emory  Miller,  ministerial  delegate  from  Des  Moines 
conference;  born  at  Mount  Pleasant,  Pa.,  Dec.  23, 
1834;  resides  at  Des  Moines,  Iowa;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  at  Mount  Pleasant,  Pa.,  Jan.  7, 
1847;  licensed  to  preach  in  1855;  entered  Iowa  con¬ 
ference  in  1858;  member  of  General  conference  in 
1876,  1880,  1892. 

Leroy  A.  Belt,  ministerial  delegate  from  Central 
Ohio  conference;  born  at  Delaware,  Ohio,  Jan.  13, 
1837;  resides  at  Kenton,  Ohio ;  presiding-elder ;  joined 
the  church  at  Delaware,  Ohio,  Jan.  1,  1857;  entered 
the  ministry  in  Central  Ohio  conference  in  1861;  mem¬ 
ber  of  General  conference  in  1876,  1880,  1884,  1888, 
1892;  member  of  Book  Committee  from  1880  to  1884; 
member  of  Ecumenical  conference  in  1891. 

William  Ammon  Knighten,  ministerial  delegate 
from  Southern  California  conference;  born  at  Bloom¬ 
ington,  Ind.,  Peb.  28,  1844;  crossed  the  plains  in  1849 
to  California;  is  pastor  of  Grace  church,  Los  An¬ 
geles,  Cal. ;  joined  the  church  at  Ukiah,  Cal.,  Sept. 
28,  1865;  entered  the  ministry  in  the  California  con¬ 
ference  in  1873. 

William  Henry  Whitmore  Rees,  ministerial  dele¬ 
gate  from  Des  Moines  conference;  born  at  Rock 
Island,  Ill.,  March  19,  1849;  resides  at  Cincinnati, 
Ohio;  is  recording  secretary  Preedmen’s  Aid  and 
Southern  Educational  society ;  joined  the  church  at 
Covington,  Ky.,  in  November,  1865;  entered  the  min¬ 
istry  in  Des  Moines  conference  in  1869;  was  an  as¬ 
sistant  editor  of  Daily  Christian  Advocate  in  1892. 

James  Washington  Whiting,  lay  delegate  from  Cali¬ 
fornia  conference;  born  at  Buenos  Ayres,  South 
America,  in  1830;  insurance  agent  at  San  Francisco, 
Cal. ;  joined  the  church  at  Buenos  Ayres  in  March, 
1848;  steward,  Sunday-school  superintendent  and 
trustee. 

Alexander  M.  Holden,  lay  delegate  from  Genesee 
conference;  born  at  Mendon,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  11,  1848; 
banker  at  Honeoye  Falls,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church 
at  Honeoye  Falls  In  1876;  trustee  and  Sunday-school 
superintendent. 

John  Wesley  Richards,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Rock  River  conference;  born  at  Alexander,  N.  Y. ; 
Aug.  3,  1846;  pastor  at  De  Kalb,  Ill.;  joined  the 
church  at  Attica,  N.  Y.,  June,  1862;  entered  the 
ministry  in  Rock  River  conference  in  1876. 

John  Holt,  ministerial  delegate  from  West  Wiscon¬ 
sin  conference;  born  at  Nottingham,  England,  Sept. 
30,  1827;  pastor  at  Mondovi,  Wis. ;  joined  the  church 
in  England  in  1845,  and  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  in  1849 ;  entered  the  ministry  in  1857. 

Joseph  McKendree  Carter,  ministerial  delegate 
from  Central  Tennessee  conference;  born  In  Carroll 
county,  Tenn.,  Jan.  1,  1851;  resides  at  Huntingdon, 
Tenn. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  at  Carter’s 
chapel  in  September,  1865 ;  entered  the  ministry  in 
Tennessee  conference  in  1870;  member  of  General 
conference  in  1892 


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58 


PLATE  VI.— 1.  C.  L.  Stafford.  2.  W.  J.  McKay.  3.  H.  C.  Woods.  4.  John  Furrer.  5.  John  H.  Mickey.  6.  F.J. 
Core.  7.  Robert  Smy lie.  8.  O.  P.  Miller.  9.  J  A.  Mansfield.  10.  Charles  H.  Payne.  11.  Emory  Miller.  12.  L.  A.  Belt. 
13.  Wm.  A.  Knighten.  14.  W.  H.  W.  Rees.  15.  J.  W.  Whiting.  16.  A.  M.  Holden.  17.  J.  W.  Richards.  18.  John  Holt. 
19.  S.  A.  Morse.  20  J  M.  Carter. 


From  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate,  November  13,  1895. 

59 


PLATE  VII 


Henry  Lemcke,  ministerial  delegate  Chicago  Ger¬ 
man  conference;  born  Golsbe,  Germany,  Oct.  4,  1847, 
resides  Watertown,  Wis. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Madison,  Wis.,  1872;  entered  the  ministry 
Chicago  German  conference,  1877 

Henry  P.  Magill,  lay  delegate  West  Wisconsin  con¬ 
ference  ;  born  Clarksburg,  Ohio,  Sept.  11, 1857 ;  banker 
La  Crosse,  Wis. ;  joined  the  church  North  La  Crosse, 
Wis.,  1887;  Sunday-school  superintendent,  trustee, 
steward. 

Clarence  P.  Kilborne,  lay  delegate  Northwest  Iowa 
conference;  born  Winfield,  Ontario,  June  29,  1859; 
traveling  salesman,  Sioux  City,  Iowa;  joined  the 
church  Smithland,  Iowa,  1880 ;  trustee,  chorister. 

Elias  M.  Collett,  ministerial  delegate  North  Caro¬ 
lina  conference;  born  on  John’s  river,  Caldwell 
county,  N.  C.,  Oct.  14,  1852;  resides  Charlotte,  N.  C  ; 
presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  in  Hey  wood  coun¬ 
ty,  N.  C  ,  September,  1866;  entered  the  ministry  in 
1880 ;  reserve  delegate  1888,  1892. 

Thomas  Perry  Jacobs,  lay  delegate  West  Virginia 
conference;  born  in  Maryland  Jan.  27,  1852;  resides 
New  Martinsville,  W.  Va. ;  judge  fourth  judicial  cir¬ 
cuit;  joined  the  church  at  Morgantown,  W.  Va., 
1869;  Sunday-school  superintendent. 

Joseph  W.  Gilluly,  lay  delegate  Colorado  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Shrewsbury,  N.  J.,  Feb.  13,  1851;  treas¬ 
urer  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad  company,  Den¬ 
ver,  Col.;  joined  the  church  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  1865; 
trustee. 

Reuben  De  Witt  Munger,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Central  New  York  conference,  was  born  at  Ithaca, 
N.  Y.,  Aug.  26,  1837;  resides  at  Auburn,  N.  Y. ;  pre¬ 
siding-elder  of  Auburn  district;  joined  the  church  at 
Lima,  N.  Y.,  March  15,  1856;  entered  the  ministry  in 
East  Genesee,  afterward  Central  New  York  confer¬ 
ence,  in  1861. 

Thomas  Burgess  Ford,  ministerial  delegate  Puget 
Sound  conference,  born  in  Tennessee  June  21,  1848; 
resides  Seattle,  Wash.;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  at  Polk  Bayou,  Ark.,  1867;  entered  ministry 
Missouri  and  Arkansas  conference  March,  1868;  mem¬ 
ber  of  General  conference  in  1880,  1884,  1888 ;  reserve, 
1876,  1892. 

Lewis  Curts,  ministerial  delegate  Rock  River  con¬ 
ference;  born  at  Logan,  Ohio,  March  24,  1847;  re¬ 
sides  Evanston,  Ill. ;  publishing  agent  of  Western 
Methodist  Book  Concern;  joined  the  church  Lisbon, 
Iowa,  February,  1864;  entered  ministry  in  Rock 
River  conference  1870;  member  of  General  conference 
1888-1892,  and  Ecumenical  conference  1891. 

Earl  Cranston,  ministerial  delegate  Colorado  con¬ 
ference;  born  Athens,  Ohio,  June  27,  1840;  resides 
Cincinnati,  Ohio ;  publishing  agent  of  Western  Meth¬ 
odist  Book  Concern ;  joined  the  church  Piketon,  Ohio, 


1851 ;  entered  ministry  Ohio  conference  1867 ;  member 
of  General  conference  1884,  1888,  1892. 

Sandford  Hunt,  ministerial  delegate  Genesee  con¬ 
ference;  born  Western  New  York  1S27;  publishing 
agent  of  Methodist  Book  Concern,  New  York  city; 
joined  the  church  1830;  entered  ministry  Genesee 
conference  1847 ;  member  of  six  General  conferences. 

Edmund  M.  Mills,  ministerial  delegate  Central  New 
York  conference;  born  Byetown,  July  17,  1848;  pas¬ 
tor  First  church,  Elmira,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church 
Middletown,  Conn.,  Nov.  5,  1871;  entered  ministry 
Central  New  York  1872;  member  of  General  confer¬ 
ence  1888,  1892. 

Charles  Otto  Lobeck,  lay  delegate  Western  Swedish 
conference;  born  Andover,  Ill.,  April* 6,  1852;  hard¬ 
ware  merchant,  Omaha,  Neb. ;  joined  the  church  at 
Berea,  Ohio,  1866;  ex-member  state  senate. 

George  Guth,  ministerial  delegate  California  Ger¬ 
man  conference;  born  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  July  5,  1845; 
resides  San  Francisco,  Cal.;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Santa  Claus,  Ind.,  Feb.  7,  1857;  entered 
ministry  Central  German  conference,  1865. 

Leslie  M.  Shaw,  lay  delegate  Des  Moines  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Morristown,  Vt.,  Nov.  2,  1848;  lawyer, 
Denison,  Iowa;  joined  church  Mt.  Vernon,  Iowa, 
1872;  Sunday-school  superintendent,  trustee,  stew¬ 
ard  ;  member  of  General  conference  1888,  1892. 

Henry  A.  Salzer,  lay  delegate  Northwest  German 
conference;  born  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  Jan.  9,  1855; 
seed  merchant,  La  Crosse,  Wis. ;  joined  the  church 
La  Crosse,  1866;  trustee,  steward;  member  of  Gen¬ 
eral  conference,  1892 ;  member  of  Book  Committee. 

Marshall  M.  Callen,  ministerial  delegate  Michigan 
conference;  born  Knox  county,  Tenn.,  May  16,  1849 ; 
pastor  Hillsdale,  Mich. ;  joined  the  church  Thorn 
Grove,  Tenn.,  at  twelve  years  of  age;  entered  the 
ministry  In  Michigan  conference  1876;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1892. 

Albert  C.  Ross,  lay  delegate  Upper  Iowa  confer¬ 
ence;  born  near  Buckstown,  Pa.,  June  27, 1847;  editor 
New k,  Osage,  Iowa;  converted  Jan.  12, 1861;  joined  the 
church  1871  at  South  Bend,  Ind. ;  teacher  and  super¬ 
intendent  of  schools  for  twenty-one  years;  trustee. 

Hascal  R.  Brill,  lay  delegate  from  Minnesota  con¬ 
ference;  born  at  Phillipsburg,  Quebec,  Aug.  10,  1846; 
resides  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.;  presiding  judge  district 
court;  joined  the  church  at  Red  Wing,  Minn.,  1866; 
trustee  First  church ;  was  a  member  of  General  con¬ 
ference  in  1892 

Richard  Joseph  Cooke,  ministerial  delegate  Holston 
conference;  born  New  York  city,  Jan.  30,  1853;  re¬ 
sides  Athens,  Tenn. ;  professor  and  vice-chancellor 
Grant  university;  editor  Methodist  Advocate-Journal , 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. ;  joined  the  church  Moore’s 
chapel  1872 ;  entered  ministry  Central  Tennessee  con¬ 
ference  1874. 


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PLATE  VII.— 1.  Henry  Lemcke.  2.  Henry  P.  Magill.  3.  C.  P.  Kilborne.  4.  E.  M.  Collett.  5.  Thos.  P.  Jacobs 
6.  J.  W.  Gilluly.  7.  R.  D.  Munger.  8.  T.  B.  Ford.  9.  E.  M.  Mills.  10.  Lewis  Curts.  11.  Earl  Cranston.  12.  Sandford 
Hunt.  13.  C.  O.  Lobeck.  14.  George  Guih.  15.  L.  M.  Shaw.  16.  Henry  A.  Salzer.  17.  M.  M.  Callen.  18.  Albert  C. 
Ross.  19.  H.  R.  Brill.  20.  R.  J.  Cooke 


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Joseph  Addison  Williams,  lay  delegate  from  South¬ 
ern  California  confeience;  was  born  at  Ypsilanti, 
Mich.,  Oct.  2,  1847;  is  a  merchant  at  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.;  joined  the  church  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  December, 
1868;  is  Sunday-school  superintendent  and  trustee. 

W.  F.  T.  Bushnell,  lay  delegate  from  South  Dakota 
conference;  born  at  Peru,  III.,  Dec.  3,  1857;  editor  and 
publisher  of  Dakota  Farmer,  Aberdeen,  S.  D. ;  joined 
the  church  at  Evanston,  Ill.,  in  1876;  is  Sabbath- 
school  superintendent. 

Hilary  Washington  Key,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Tennessee  conference;  born  at  Gallatin,  Tenn.,  on 
Dec.  22,  1833;  resides  at  Mason,  Tenn.;  presiding- 
elder;  joined  the  church  at  Gallatin,  Tenn.,  in  1865; 
entered  the  ministry  in  1866;  member  of  General  con¬ 
ference  in  1880  and  1884. 

Samuel  Whitney  Trousdale,  ministerial  delegate 
from  West  Wisconsin  conference;  born  at  Fayette, 
Wis.,  Nov.  12,  1853;  pastor  First  church,  La  Crosse, 
Wis. ;  joined  the  church  at  Fayette,  Wis.,  in  1868; 
entered  the  ministry  in  West  Wisconsin  conference 
in  1882. 

William  Fletcher  King,  ministerial  delegate  Upper 
Iowa  conference;  born  near  Zanesville,  Ohio,  Dec. 
20, 1830 ;  has  been  president  Cornell  college  thirty-two 
years;  joined  the  church  Asbury,  Ohio,  1840;  en¬ 
tered  the  ministry  in  Upper  Iowa  conference  in  1862; 
member  of  General  conference  1876,  1888. 

Charles  Crowther  Lasby,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Nebraska  conference;  born  in  Canada  in  February, 
1854;  pastor  St.  Paul’s  church,  Lincoln,  Neb. ;  joined 
the  church  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in  1873;  entered  the  min¬ 
istry  in  New  York  East  conference  in  1879. 

JohnD.  Walsh,  ministerial  delegate  from  Kentucky 
conference ;  born  at  Battenville,  N.  Y. ,  March  24, 1839 ; 
resides  at  Lexington,  Ky. ;  presiding  elder ;  joined  the 
church  at  Battenville,  N.  Y.,  in  1860;  entered  the 
ministry  at  Danville,  Ky.,  as  supply  in  1868;  joined 
Kentucky  conference  in  1869;  member  of  General 
conference  in  1880,  1888,  reserve  in  1S92. 

George  Wesley  Gue,  ministerial  delegate  Oregon 
conference;  born  Neville,  Ohio,  Feb.  27,  1840;  resides 
Mt.  Tabor,  Ore. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church 
Princeville,  Ill.,  January,  1857;  entered  ministry  Cen¬ 
tral  Illinois  conference;  member  of  General  confer¬ 
ence  1884-1888 

DeWitt  C.  Franklin,  ministerial  delegate  from  Des 
Moines  conference;  was  born  at  Wyoming,  Wis.,  Dec. 
18,  1848;  resides  at  Atlantic,  Iowa;  is  presiding-elder 
Atlantic  district;  joined  the  church  at  Wyoming, 
Wis.,  Dec.  25,  1869;  entered  the  ministry  in  Des 
Moines  conference  in  1878. 

J  B.  Albrook,  ministerial  delegate  from  Upper  Iowa 
conference;  born  at  Monroeville,  Pa.,  on  July  18, 
1844;  resides  at  Mount  Vernon,  Iowa;  presiding- 
elder;  joined  the  church  at  Edenburg,  Pa.,  in  Sep¬ 
tember,  1856;  entered  the  ministry  in  Upper  Iowa 
conference  in  1870. 


Wesley  G.  Waters,  ministerial  delegate  Central 
Ohio  conference;  born  Otsego,  Ohio,  Feb.  10,  1835; 
pastor  Fremont,  Ohio;  joined  the  church  at  Irville, 
Ohio,  1851;  entered  ministry  Central  Ohio  confer¬ 
ence,  1858 ;  member  of  General  conference  1876,  1884. 

Thomas  Blaine  Taylor,  lay  delegate  from  Upper 
Iowa  conference,  was  born  in  Dubuque  county,  Iowa, 
Jan.  1,  1853;  attorney  at  law  at  Hampton,  Iowa; 
joined  the  church  at  Mt.  Vernon,  Iowa,  in  January, 
1868;  Is  steward,  trustee,  and  class-leader. 

Joseph  Beaumont  Hingeley,  ministerial  delegate 
from  Minnesota  Northern  conference;  born  at  Car¬ 
michaels,  Pa.,  Jan.  26,1856;  pastor  Foss  church,  Min¬ 
neapolis,  Minn. ;  joined  the  church  Massillon,  Ohio, 
April,  1870;  entered  the  ministry  New  England 
Southern  (then  Providence)  conference  in  1881. 

Francis  John  Cheney,  lay  delegate  Central  New 
York  conference;  born  Warren,  Pa.,  June  5,  1848; 
principal  State  Normal  and  Training-school,  Cort¬ 
land,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church  Delevan,  N.  Y.,  July, 
1869. 

Nels  Edward  Simonsen,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Norwegian-Danish  conference;  born  at  Oconomowoc, 
Wis.,  May  17,  1855;  president  Norwegian-Danish 
Theological  seminary,  Evanston,  Ill. ;  joined  the 
church  at  Alderley,  Wis.,  in  1871;  entered  the  minis¬ 
try  in  Norway  conference  in  1885,  and  was  trans¬ 
ferred  to  Norwegian-Danish  conference  the  same 
year. 

Levi  Master,  ministerial  delegate  from  Michigan 
conference;  born  at  Wilmot,  Ontario,  Feb.  8,  1841; 
resides  at  Kalamazoo,  Mich.;  presiding-elder;  en¬ 
tered  the  ministry  in  Michigan  conference  in  1870 ; 
member  of  General  conference  in  1892. 

Polemus  Hamilton  Swift,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Rock  river  conference,  was  born  at  Palmyra,  Wis., 
Oct.  24,  1853;  pastor  of  First  church,  Englewood, 
Chicago;  joined  the  church  at  Beaver  Falls,  Minn., 
Sept.  5,  1870;  entered  the  ministry  in  Rock  River 
conference  in  1884. 

Charles  E.  Mueller,  lay  delegate  from  Chicago  Ger¬ 
man  conference,  born  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  March  15, 
1858;  resides  Milwaukee,  Wis. ;  hardware  merchant; 
joined  the  church  Milwaukee  Feb.  17,  1878;  steward, 
president  of  Epworth  league,  and  Sunday-school 
superintendent. 

Herbert  Churchill  Clark,  lay  delegate  from  Colum¬ 
bia  River  conference;  born  at  Kinderhook,  Ill.,  May 
7,  1854;  farmer  Bickleton,  Wash  ;  joined  the  church 
at  Kinderhook,  Ill.,  Feb.  28,  1868;  steward,  class- 
leader,  Sunday-school  superintendent. 

Tilghman  H.  Willis,  ministerial  delegate  from  Indi¬ 
ana  conference;  was  born  in  Carlisle,  Ind.,  Oct.  15, 
1846;  resides  at  Bloomington,  Ind. ;  is  presiding-elder 
Bloomington  district;  joined  the  church  at  Mt.  Cal¬ 
vary,  Ind.,  Jan.  19,  1866;  entered  the  ministry  ip  In¬ 
diana  conference  in  1871. 


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PLATE  VIII.—  1.  J.  A.  Williams.  2.  W.  F.  T.  Bushnell.  3  H.  W.  Key.  4.  S.  W.  Trousdale.  5.  Wm.  F.  King. 
6.  C.  C.  Lasby.  7.  J.  D.  Walsh.  8.  G.  W.  Gue.  9.  D.  W.  C.  Franklin.  10.  J.  B  Albrook.  11.  W.  G.  Waters.  12.  T.  B. 
Taylor.  V\13.  J.  B.  Hingeley.  14.  F.  J.  Cheney  15.  N.  E.  Simonsen,  16.  Levi  Master.  17.  P.  H.  Swift.  18.  Chas.  E. 
Mueller.  19.  H.  C.  Clark.  20.  T.  H.  Willis. 


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63 


PLATE  IX, 


W.  F.  Muenzenmayer,  lay  delegate  from  West  Ger¬ 
man  conference;  was  born  in  Franklin  county,  Mo., 
Nov.  26,  1856;  resides  at  Junction  City,  Kas. ;  mer¬ 
chant;  joined  the  church  at  Kansas  City,  Kas.,  1868; 
is  a  steward  and  local  preacher. 

Herman  C.  Grawe,  lay  delegate  from  St.  Louis 
German  conference;  was  born  in  Germany  Aug. 
21,  1846;  resides  at  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  merchant;  joined 
the  church  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  1S67;  steward. 

John  M.  Naylor,  lay  delegate  from  North  Ohio  con¬ 
ference;  was  born  at  Wooster,  Ohio,  Dec.  9, 1822;  re¬ 
sides  at  Tiffin,  Ohio ;  merchant ;  joined  the  church  at 
St.  Paul’s,  Tiffin,  Ohio,  March,  1866;  trustee. 

Allen  Robinson  Julian,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Northwest  Nebraska  conference;  was  born  at  New 
Harmony,  Ind.,  May  4, 1848 ;  resides  at  Chadron,  Neb. ; 
presiding-elder  Chadron  district;  joined  the  church 
at  Greencastle,  Ind.,  in  1866;  entered  the  ministry  in 
Indiana  conference  in  1877. 

William  H.  Jordan,  ministerial  delegate  from  South 
Dakota  conference;  born  at  Leicester,  Mass.,  Oct. 
16,1857;  is  pastor  at  Sioux  Falls,  S.  D. ;  joined  the 
church  at  McHenry,  Ills.,  in  1872;  entered  the  min¬ 
istry  in  Dakota  conference  in  1885;  reserve  delegate 
in  1892;  state  regent  of  education,  South  Dakota. 

William  Forney  Barclay,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Upper  Iowa  conference;  was  born  at  Medina,  Ohio, 
Jan.  22,  1848;  is  pastor  at  Mason  City,  Iowa;  joined 
the  church  at  Tipton,  Iowa,  Jan.  22,  1864;  entered 
the  ministry  in  Upper  Iowa  conference  in  1874; 
official  relation  to  the  church  is  that  of  pastor. 

Patrick  J.  Maveety,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Michigan  conference;  was  born  in  county  Longford, 
Ireland,  Feb.  8,  1855;  is  pastor  at  Jackson,  Mich.; 
was  reared  a  Roman  Catholic ;  joined  the  church  at 
Orleans  county,  N.  Y,,  in  March,  1873;  entered  the 
ministry  in  Michigan  conference  in  1878 ;  is  secretary 
of  conference. 

Elias  D.  Whitlock,  ministerial  delegate  from  the 
Central  Ohio  conference;  was  born  near  Dayton, 
Ohio;  resides  at  Bellefontaine,  Ohio;  is  presiding 
elder  of  Bellefontaine  district;  joined  the  church  at 
Delaware,  Ohio,  in  February,  1866;  entered  the  min¬ 
istry  in  Central  Ohio  conference  in  1873;  was  a  mem¬ 
ber  of  general  conference  in  1888  and  1892. 

Frank  G.  Mitchell,  ministerial  delegate  from  Cin¬ 
cinnati  conference ;  born  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Nov. 
28,  1845;  is  pastor  of  Greene-street  church,  Pequa, 
Ohio ;  joined  the  church  at  Wesley  chapel,  Cincin¬ 
nati,  in  1860 ;  entered  the  ministry  in  Cincinnati  con¬ 
ference  in  1867. 

Alpha  J.  Kynett,  ministerial  delegate  from  Upper 
Iowa  conference;  was  born  in  Adams  county,  Pa., 
Aug.  12,  1829;  resides  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  is  corre¬ 
sponding  secretary  of  Church  Extension  society;  en¬ 
tered  the  ministry  in  Iowa  conference  In  1851 ;  was  a 
member  of  General  conference  nine  times,  from  1864 
to  1896. 

Lewis  Ransom  Fiske,  ministerial  delegate  from  De¬ 
troit  conference ;  was  born  at  Penfield,  N.  Y.,  Dec. 
24,  1825;  is  president  of  Albion  college,  Albion,  Mich. ; 
Joined  the  church  at  Coldwater,  Mich.,  in  1842;  en¬ 


tered  the  ministry  in  Michigan  conference  In  1863; 
transferred  to  Detroit  conference  in  1866;  was  editor 
of  Michigan  Advocate  from  1875  to  1877 ;  was  a  member 
of  General  conference  in  1872,  1876,1884,1888,1892; 
was  a  delegate  to  Ecumenical  conference  at  Wash¬ 
ington  in  1891. 

William  Anson  Spencer,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Rock  River  conference;  was  born  at  Rock  Island,  Ill., 
Sept.  6,  1840 ;  resides  at  Philadelphia,  Pa  ;  is  corre¬ 
sponding  secretary  of  Board  of  Church  Extension ; 
joined  the  church  at  Rock  Island,  Ill.,  in  1847;  en¬ 
tered  the  ministry  in  Central  Illinois  conference  Sep¬ 
tember,  1867;  joined  the  Rock  River  conference  in 
1875 ;  was  a  member  of  General  conference  in  1884 
and  1888. 

John  Edwin  RIgg,  lay  delegate  from  Pittsburg  con¬ 
ference,  was  born  in  Washington  county,  Pa.,  Oct. 
13,  1855;  resides  at  Wilkinsburg,  Pa. ;  is  a  physician  ; 
joined  the  church  at  Scenery  Hill,  Pa.,  in  August, 
1870;  is  a  trustee. 

William  J.  Crusen,  lay  delegate  from  West  Ne¬ 
braska  conference;  born  at  Newark,  Licking  county, 
Ohio,  March  19,  1842;  resides  at  North  Platte,  Neb.; 
locomotive  engineer  on  Union  Pacific  railroad ;  joined 
the  church  at  North  Platte,  Feb.  2,  1889;  class-leader 
and  exhorter. 

John  Coyle,  ministerial  delegate  from  California 
conference,  was  born  in  England,  June  6,1839;  re¬ 
sides  in  San  Francisco,  Cal. ;  is  presiding-elder  San 
Francisco  district;  joined  the  church  at  Greenpoint, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  in  December,  1857;  entered  the  min¬ 
istry  Newark  conference  in  1863;  reserve  delegate  in 
1892. 

Jacob  Mills,  ministerial  delegate  from  Montana 
conference,  was  born  at  Topsham,  Vt.,  Nov.  18,  1842; 
resides  at  Bozeman,  Mont. ;  is  agent  of  Montana  Wes¬ 
leyan  university ;  joined  the  church  at  Island  Pond, 
Vt.,  In  1876;  entered  the  ministry  in  Montana  confer 
ence  in  1885. 

Arnold  Thcmas  Needham,  ministerial  delegate 
from  California  conference ;  was  born  at  Island  of 
Guernsey,  Aug.  14,  1838;  resides  at  Oakland,  Cal.; 
presiding-elder  of  Sacramento  district;  joined  the 
Clark-street  church,  Chicago,  III.,  winter  of  1854-55; 
entered  the  ministry  in  Rock  River  conference 
in  1864. 

John  Stafford,  ministerial  delegate  from  Minnesota 
conference;  was  born  at  Nottingham,  England,  Dec. 
6,  1843;  resides  at  Mankato,  Minn.;  presiding-elder ; 
joined  the  church  at  Union  Village,  N.  Y.,  January, 
1859;  entered  the  ministry  in  Minnesota  conference 
in  1869. 

Trevanyon  L.  Mathews,  lay  delegate  from  North 
Nebraska  conference;  was  born  at  Florence,  Pa., 
March  1,  1859;  resides  at  Fremont,  Neb. ;  is  engagfd 
in  real  estate  and  loans ;  joined  the  church  at  Beards- 
town,  Ill.;  1872;  district  steward. 

Victor  Wilker,  lay  delegate  from  Central  German 
conference;  was  born  at  Hanover,  Germany,  Sept.  18, 
1842;  professor  of  modern  languages  in  German  Wal¬ 
lace  college,  Berea,  Ohio ;  Joined  the  church  at  Bates- 
ville,  Ind.,  in  1862;  a  local  preacher. 


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PLATE  IX.— 1.  W.  F.  Muenzenmayer.  2.  Herman  C.  Grawe.  3.  John  M.  Naylor.  4.  A.  R.  Julian.  5.  W.  H.  Jor¬ 
dan.  6.  W.  F.  Barclay.  7.  P.  J.  Maveety.  8.  E.  D.  Whitlock.  9.  Frank  G.  Mitchell.  10.  A.  J.  Kynett.  11.  L-  R- 
Fiske.  12.  W.  A.  Spencer.  13.  John  E.  Rigg.  14.  Wm.  J.  Crusen.  15.  John  Coyle.  16.  Jacob  Mills.  17.  A.  T.  Neea- 
ham.  18.  John  Stafford.  19.  T.  L.  Mathews.  20.  Victor  Wilker. 

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65 


PLATE  X 


Jacob  H.  Haeussler,  lay  delegate  Central  German 
conference;  born  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  Jan.  29, 
1851;  resides  Cincinnati;  manager  Home  Life  In¬ 
surance  Co.;  joined  the  church  1865;  Sunday-school 
superintendent,  class-leader,  exhorter,  steward. 

James  Alexander  Fowler,  lay  delegate  Holston  con¬ 
ference;  born  Knox  county,  Tenn.,  Feb.  22,  1868; 
lawyer,  Clinton,  Tenn. ;  joined  the  church  Heiskell’s 
Station,  Tenn.,  1880;  steward. 

Merrimon  Straughn  Heavenridge,  ministerial  dele¬ 
gate  Indiana  conference;  born  Henry  county,  Ind., 
Nov.  10,  1841;  resides  Vincennes,  Ind.;  presiding- 
elder;  joined  the  church  Stilesville,  Ind.,  January, 
1859 ;  entered  ministry  Indiana  conference,  1865. 

Roy  S.  Copeland,  lay  delegate  Detroit  conference; 
born  Dexter,  Mich.,  Nov.  7, 1868;  physician  and  pro¬ 
fessor  of  ophthalmology  and  otology,  University  of 
Michigan,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. ;  joined  the  church  Dex¬ 
ter,  Mich.,  1886;  steward. 

William  Trafton  Randall,  lay  delegate  from  South¬ 
ern  California  conference;  born  at  Wayne,  Maine,  in 
1857;  dean  of  Chaffey  college,  University  of  South¬ 
ern  California,  Ontario,  Cal. ;  joined  the  church  at 
Middletown  Conn.,  1884;  steward  and  district 
steward. 

George  Henry  Bridgman,  ministerial  delegate  from 
Minnesota  conference;  born  in  Ontario;  resides  at 
Hamline;  president  of  Hamline  university;  joined 
church  at  Cobourg,  Ont.,  1863;  entered  ministry  in 
Ontario,  1864;  member  of  General  conference  in  1888 
and  1892. 

Henry  C.  Jennings,  ministerial  delegate  Minnesota 
conference;  born  Fremont,  Lake  county,  Ill.,  Dec.  21, 
1850;  resides  Mankato,  Minn.;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  at  Fillmore,  Minn.,  1867;  entered 
ministry  1871 ;  member  General  conference  1892. 

Judson  S.  Hill,  ministerial  delegate  East  Tennessee 
conference;  born  Trenton,  N.  J.,  June  8,  1854;  presi¬ 
dent  Morristown  Normal  academy,  Morristown, 
Tenn.;  joined  the  church  Trenton,  N.  J.,  1863;  en¬ 
tered  ministry  Holston  conference,  1879;  reserve 
delegate,  1888-1892. 

Ephraim  L.  Eaton,  ministerial  delegate  Wisconsin 
conference;  born  Hebron,  Wis.,  March  27,  1846;  pas¬ 
tor  First  church,  Racine,  Wis. ;  joined  the  church 
Hebron,  Wis.,  September,  1870;  entered  ministry  1871 ; 
member  General  conference  1888 ;  reserve  1892. 

Jacob  Rothweiler,  ministerial  delegate  Central 
German  conference;  born  Bergbausen,  Baden,  Ger¬ 
many,  Dec.  3,1824;  resides  New  Albany,  Ind.;  pre¬ 
siding-elder;  joined  the  church  at  New  York  city, 
Jan.  1,  1842;  entered  ministry  in  Ohio  conference, 
1846;  member  of  General  conference  1864,  186S,  1872, 
1876,  1888,  1892. 

Charles  W.  Smith,  ministerial  delegate  from  Pitts¬ 
burg  conference;  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Pa., 
on  Jan  30,  1840;  resides  at  Pittsburg,  Pa. ;  is  editor  of 


Pittsburg  Christian  Advocate;  joined  the  church  at 
Hammonds'? ille,  Ohio,  in  1858;  entered  the  ministry 
in  Pittsburg  conference  in  1859;  was  a  member  of 
General  conference  1876,  1884,  1888, 1892. 

Winfield  Scott  Matthew,  ministerial  delegate 
Southern  California  conference;  born  near  Spring- 
field,  Ill.,  May  6, 1848;  editor  California  Christian  Advo¬ 
cate,  San  Francisco,  Cal.;  joined  the  church  at  Zion 
chapel,  Pawnee  charge,  Ill.,  February,  1865;  entered 
ministry  Illinois  conference,  1876;  member  General 
conference,  1892. 

Galen  A.  Merrill,  lay  delegate  Minnesota  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Augusta,  Mich.,  Dec.  27,  1859;  superin¬ 
tendent  of  Minnesota  state  public  schools;  resides  at 
Owatonna,  Minn. ;  joined  the  church  at  Augusta, 
Mich.,  in  1877;  district  steward,  trustee. 

William  Newkirk,  lay  delegate  from  Indiana  con¬ 
ference;  was  born  at  Philadelphia,  Penn.,  in  May, 
1828;  is  a  manufacturer  at  Connersville,  Ind.;  joined 
the  church  at  Connersville,  Ind.,  Aug.  1862;  is  trus¬ 
tee  and  steward;  was  a  member  of  General  confer¬ 
ence  in  1884. 

John  H.  Hess,  ministerial  delegate  West  Virginia 
conference;  born  Taneytown,  Md.,  Jan.  5,1851;  re¬ 
sides  Buckhannon,  W.  Va. ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
Lutheran  church  at  Taneytown,  Md.,  1868;  M  E. 
church  at  Williamstown,  Dec  ,  1874;  entered  ministry 
West  Virginia  conference,  1875. 

Dr.  Jacob  F.  Force,  lay  delegate  Northern  Mirne- 
sota  conference;  born  Stillwater,  N.  Y.,  March  2, 
1843;  manager  life-insurance  company,  Minneapolis, 
Minn.;  joined  the  church  Newark,  N.  J.,  1861 ;  trus¬ 
tee,  Sunday-school  superintendent. 

Josiah  L.  Albritton,  ministerial  delegate  from  Cen¬ 
tral  Ohio  conference,  was  born  at  Mayfield,  Ky., 
Sept.  13,  1847 ;  resides  at  Toledo,  Ohio ;  is  presiding- 
elder  of  Toledo  district;  joined  church  at  Mayfield, 
Ky.,  in  1866;  entered  the  ministry  in  Kentucky  con¬ 
ference,  in  February,  1868. 

Samuel  Van  Pelt,  ministerial  delegate  Central  Illi¬ 
nois  conference;  born  Cynthiana,  Ky.,  March  30, 
1854;  president  of  conference  seminary,  Onarga,  Ill. ; 
joined  church  at  Normal,  Ill.,  Jan.  24,1869;  entered 
ministry  Central  Illinois  conference,  September, 
1876. 

Erastus  Smith,  ministerial  delegate  West  Nebraska 
conference;  born  Brooklyn,  Pa.,  July  9,  1842 ;  resides 
Kearney,  Neb.;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church 
Beach  Pond,  Pa.,  1856;  entered  ministry  in  Rocky 
Mountain  conference,  1872. 

Wilmot  W.  Van  Dusen,  ministerial  delegate  Colum 
bia  River  conference;  born  Harpersfield,  N.  Y. 
April  1,  1854;  resides  Spokane,  Wash.;  presiding- 
elder;  joined  the  church  FergU'onville,  N.  Y.,  1870; 
entered  ministry  Northern  New  York  conference, 
1880. 


From  Northw  estern  Christian  Advocate,  December  iS,  1S95. 


PLATE  X.— 1.  Jacob  H.  Haeussler.  2.  J.  A.  Fowler.  3.  M.  S.  Heavenridge.  4.  R.  S.  Copeland.  5.  W.  T.  Ranaan. 
6.  George  H.  Bridgman.  7.  H.  C.  Jennings.  8.  Judson  S.  Hill.  9.  E.  L.  Eaton.  10.  Jacob  Rothweiler.  11.  Charles  W. 
Smith.  12.  W  S.  Matthew.  13.  Galen  A.  Merrill.  14.  William  Newkirk.  15.  John  H.  Hess.  16.  J.  F.  Force.  17.  J.  L. 
Albritton.  18.  Samuel  Van  Pelt,  19.  Erastus  Smith.  20.  W.  W.  Van  Dusen. 


From  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate,  December  iS,  1895- 

67 


PLATE  XI 


Elbridge  R.  Willis,  ministerial  delegate  California 
conference;  born  Delaware,  Ohio;  resides  Napa, 
California;  presiding-elder ;  joined  the  church  in 
Ohio,  at  age  of  fourteen;  entered  ministry  Nevada 
conference, 1880. 

Adolphus  Graybeal,  ministerial  delegate  Blue 
Ridge  conference;  born  Jefferson,  N.  C.,  Dec.  21, 
1860;  resides  Montezuma,  N.  C. ;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  Lansing,  N.  C.,  1878;  entered  min¬ 
istry  1880. 

Christopher  Haw,  lay  delegate  Iowa  conference; 
born  Grant  county,  Wis.,  March  29,1848;  wholesale 
merchant,  Ottumwa,  Iowa ;  joined  the  church  1868; 
served  all  official  relations  open  to  laymen ;  delegate 
from  Iowa  1891  to  International  Good  Templars, 
Edinburgh,  Scotland. 

George  Henry  Trever,  ministerial  delegate  Wiscon¬ 
sin  conference;  born  Newcastle-under-Lyme,  Eng¬ 
land,  Oct.  13,  1856;  pastor  Milwaukee,  Wis.;  joined 
the  church  Brant,  Wis.,  1875;  entered  ministry  Wis¬ 
consin  conference,  1883. 

David  L.  Ash,  ministerial  delegate  West  Virginia 
conference;  born  Harrison  county,  W.  Va.,  Oct.  20, 
1855;  resides  Grafton,  W.  Va.  ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  at  Wilsonburg,  1875;  entered  ministry 
West  Virginia  conference,  1878. 

Robert  Stuart  Borland,  ministerial  delegate  Erie 
conference;  born  Rockland,  Pa.,  June  17, 1836;  pastor 
Forestville,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church  Rockland,  Pa., 
1854;  entered  ministry  Erie  conference,  1867;  member 
General  conference,  1888. 

Leander  Ferguson,  lay  delegate  Wisconsin  confer¬ 
ence;  horn  Middletown,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  21,  1841;  mer¬ 
chant,  Brandon,  Wis.;  joined  the  church  Brandon, 
Wis.,  June,  1856;  steward,  superintendent  Sunday- 
school. 

Harvey  J.  Gidley,  lay  delegate  Erie  conference; 
born  Sliver  Creek,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  22,  1846;  resides  Dun¬ 
kirk,  N.  Y. ;  special  agent  Northwestern  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Co.  of  Milwaukee;  joined  the  church  For¬ 
estville,  N.  Y.,  June,  1872;  steward,  trustee. 

John  C.  Nichols,  ministerial  delegate  Central  New 
York  conference;  born  in  Minisink,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  10, 
1848;  pastor  Syracuse,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church  Ches¬ 
ter,  N.  Y.,  1863;  entered  ministry  1875. 

William  Douglass  Cherington,  ministerial  delegate 
Ohio  conference;  born  McArthur,  Ohio,  June  6,  1852; 
resides  Delaware,  Ohio ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Delaware,  Ohio,  1867;  entered  ministry  Ohio 
conference,  1873. 

Henry  Godden  Jackson,  ministerial  delegate  Rock 
River  conference;  born  Manchester,  Ind.,  Jan.  1, 


1838;  resides  Chicago,  Ill.;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Manchester,  Ind.,  1858;  entered  ministry 
Northwest  Indiana  conference,  1862;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1884. 

Reuben  N.  Kratz,  lay  delegate  South  Dakota  con¬ 
ference;  born  Milton,  Onio,  July  2,  1845;  resides 
Mitchell,  S.  D. ;  acting  pastor,  Mt.  Vernon,  S.  D. ; 
joined  the  church  Woodland,  Mich.,  1871;  local 
preacher. 

C.  B.  Clark,  ministerial  delegate  South  Dakota  con¬ 
ference;  born  Sauquoit,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  28,  1839;  pastor 
Huron,  S.  D. ;  entered  ministry  Iowa  conference, 
1864 ;  member  General  conference  1892. 

Asbury  Mick,  ministerial  delegate  West  Virginia 
conference;  born  Buckhannon,  W.  Va.,  Jan.  13,  1849; 
pastor  Buckhannon,  W.  Va. ;  joined  church  Oaking- 
ton,  W.  Va.,  1863;  entered  ministry  West  Virginia 
conference,  1872. 

David  Wellington  Byrd,  lay  delegate  Tennessee 
conference;  born  Ashland,  Ohio,  Nov.  1,  1865;  in¬ 
structor  of  Greek,  Central  Tennessee  college,  Nash¬ 
ville,  Tenn. ;  joined  the  church  Berea,  Ohio,  1888; 
acting  paster  college  church. 

Wade  Hampton  Thomas,  lay  delegate  North  Caro¬ 
lina  conference;  born  Clio,  S.  C.,  June  27,1862;  re¬ 
sides  Hamlet,  N.  C  ;  United  States  railway  postal 
clerk;  joined  the  church  Greensboro,  N.  C  ,  April  19, 
1886;  Sunday-school  superintendent. 

Thomas  Henry  Woodring,  ministerial  delegate 
Pittsburg  conference;  born  Saegerstown,  Pa  ,  Jan.  22, 
1852;  resides  Wilkinsburg,  Pa.;  presiding -elder; 
joined  the  church  Meadville,  Pa.,  1866;  entered  min¬ 
istry  Pittsburg  conference  1877;  member  General 
conference  1892. 

Theron  R.  Green,  ministerial  delegate  Central  New 
York  conference;  born  South  Sodas,  N.  Y.,  April  24, 
1845;  resides  Syracuse,  N.  Y  ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  South  Sodus,  N.  Y  ,  August,  1860;  en¬ 
tered  ministry  East  Genesee  conference,  1869. 

John  Wesley  Walker, ministerial  delegate  Northwest 
Iowa  conference ;  born  Brampton, Ontario,  Feb.  2, 1844 ; 
pastor  First  church,  Rock  Rapids,  Iowa;  joined  the 
church  Brampton,  Ontario,  May  25,  1858;  entered 
ministry  of  Primitive  Methodist  Church  of  Canada 
1865;  joined  New  Hampshire  conference  1876,  and 
transferred  to  Northwest  Iowa  conference  1882. 

Rufus  Willard,  lay  delegate  Puget  Sound  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Hitesville,  Ill.,  April  27,  1836;  surgeon 
and  physician  at  Seattle,  Wash. ;  joined  the  church 
Olympia,  Wash.,  1855;  trustee,  Sunday-school  super¬ 
intendent;  member  of  General  conference  1876. 


From  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate,  December  25,  iS 95. 


PLATE  XI. —1.  E.  R.  Willis.  2.  A.  Graybeal.  3.  Christopher  Haw.  4.  George  H.  Trever.  5.  D.  L.  Ash.  6.  R.  S. 
Borland.  7.  Leander  Ferguson.  8.  H.  J.  Gidley.  9.  John  C.  Nichols.  10.  W.  D.  Cherington.  11.  H.  G.  Jackson. 
12.  R.  N.  Kratz.  13.  C.  B.  Ciark.  14.  Asbury  Mick.  15.  D.  W.  Byrd.  16.  W.  H.  Thomas.  17.  T.  H.  Woodring.  18.  T.  R. 
Green.  19.  J.  W.  Walker.  20.  Rufus  Willard. 


From  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate,  December  25,  1895. 

69 


PLATE  Xn 


James  Arthur  Ruble,  ministerial  delegate  Holston 
conference;  born  in  Bradley  county,  Tenn.,  Nov.  4, 
1844;  resides  Maryville,  Tenn.;  presiding-eF'er ; 
joined  the  church  near  Cleveland,  Tenn.,  in  1854;  en¬ 
tered  ministry  1862. 

Charles  F.  Blumberg,  lay  delegate  Southern  Ger¬ 
man  conference;  born  near  Seguin,  Texas,  Jan.  31, 
1S64 ;  merchant  at  Seguin,  Texas;  joined  the  church 
Guadalupe  Valley,  Texas,  1878;  trustee,  Sunday- 
school  superintendent,  local  preacher. 

Daniel  Stevenson,  ministerial  delegate  from  Ken¬ 
tucky  conference ;  was  born  at  Versailles,  Ky.  ;  presi¬ 
dent  of  Union  college,  Barbourville,  Ky. ;  joined  the 
church  at  Versailles  in  boyhood;  entered  the  ministry 
in  1851;  was  member  of  General  conference  in  1872. 
At  the  close  of  the  war,  1865,  was  one  of  the  eighteen 
ministers  who  withdrew  from  the  Kentucky  confer¬ 
ence  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  and 
united  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church;  was 
superintendent  of  public  instruction  of  Kentucky 
from  1863  to  1867. 

Edwin  Nottingham,  lay  delegate  Central  New  York 
conference;  born  in  DeWitt,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  3, 1850;  law¬ 
yer,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church  Syracuse, 
N.  Y. ,  Sept.  30,  1866;  steward. 

Henry  Dietz,  ministerial  delegate  Southern  Ger¬ 
man  conference;  born  Grossensee  (Saxon  Weimar) 
Germany,  April  17,  1845;  resides  Seguin,  Texas;  pre- 
sidlng  elder ;  joined  the  church  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  in 
1866;  entered  ministry  Northwest  German  confer¬ 
ence,  1870;  member  General  conference,  1888. 

David  C.  Osborne,  ministerial  delegate  from  East 
Ohio  conference;  born  Ripley,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  3, 1831;  re¬ 
sides  Barnesville,  Ohio;  presiding-elder ;  joined  the 
church  Sherman,  N.  Y  ,  January,  1850;  entered  min¬ 
istry  Erie  conference,  1853. 

John  Wesley  Adams,  lay  delegate  from  Holston 
conference;  born  in  Ridgeville,  Ohio,  July  29,  1843; 
dealer  in  real  estate,  Chattanooga,  Tenn. ;  joined  the 
church  at  Elyria,  Ohio,  April  10,  1858;  Sunday-school 
superintendent  and  trustee. 

Leonidas  Merritt,  lay  delegate  Northern  Minnesota 
conference;  born  Fredonia,  Chautauqua  county,  N. 
Y.,  Feb.  20,  1844;  mineral  explorer,  Duluth,  Minn.; 
joined  the  church  Oneonta,  Minn.,  1870;  steward. 

Thomas  Amazlah  Fortson,  lay  delegate  Texas  con¬ 
ference;  horn  Elberton,  Ga.,  Jan.  1,  1854;  teacher  in 
Prairie  View  State  Normal  school,  prairie  View, 
Texas;  joined  the  church,  Hampton,  Ga.,  August, 
1873;  trustee;  member  of  General  conference  1888 
and  1892. 

Miss  Lydia  A.  Trimble,  lay  delegate  Foochow  con¬ 
ference;  born  near  Ottawa,  Canada ;  teacher  in  Wom¬ 
an’s  school,  Hok-chiang,  China;  at  home  on  furlough ; 
address  Essex,  Ontario,  Canada;  converted  and 
joined  the  church  at  twelve  years  of  age;  engaged  in 
teaching  in  Iowa  in  1882 ;  went  to  Foochow  as  a  mis¬ 


sionary  in  18S9  frcm  Des  Moines  branch  Woman’s 
Foreign  Missionary  society.  %. 

Yoitsu  Honda,  ministerial  delegate  Japan  confer¬ 
ence;  born  in  Hirosaki,  Japan,  Dec.  15,  1848;  presi¬ 
dent  of  Aoyama  gakuin  (college)  Aoyama,  Tokio; 
joined  the  first  Protestant  church  organized  in 
Yokohama,  Japan,  in  May,  1872;  entered  the  min¬ 
istry  Newark  conference,  1879. 

Mrs.  Jane  Field  Bashford,  lay  delegate  Ohio  con¬ 
ference;  was  born  at  Fennimore,  Wis.,  March  1, 
1853;  resides  at  Delaware,  Ohio,  her  husband  being 
president  of  Ohio  Wesleyan  university;  is  a  “home¬ 
maker  ”;  joined  the  church  at  Boscobel,  Wis.,  March 
1,  1868;  is  a  steward  of  St.  Paul's  church. 

Daniel  Luper  Rader,  ministerial  delegate  Colorado 
conference;  born  at  Rose  Hill,  Mo.,  Aug.  27,  1850;  re¬ 
sides  at  Pueblo,  Col  ;  presiding-elder;  joined  Presby¬ 
terian  church  in  1864;  entered  ministry  Southwest 
Missouri  conference  M.  E.  Church,  South,  in  1871; 
joined  Colorado  conference  M.  E.  church  in  1885. 

Earl  Douglas  Holtz,  ministerial  delegate  East  Ohio 
conference;  born  at  Morristown,  Ohio,  Oct.  30,  1844; 
resides  at  Alliance,  Ohio;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  at  Flushing,  Ohio,  in  February,  1867;  entered 
ministry  Pittsburg  conference  in  1870. 

John  Sweet,  ministerial  delegate  from  Detroit  con¬ 
ference;  born  Biddeford,  England,  June  4,  1844;  re¬ 
sides  Calumet,  Mich.;  presiding  elder ;  joined  the 
church  Algonac,  Mich.,  September,  1873;  entered 
ministry,  Detroit  conference,  1874. 

Thomas  Joy  Massey,  ministerial  delegate  Puget 
Sound  conference;  born  Chester,  Ill. ;  May  10,  1856; 
resides  Fairhaven,  Wash.;  presiding-elder ;  joined 
the  church  Clay  City,  Ill  ,  March,  1876;  entered  min¬ 
istry  Southern  Illinois  conference,  1876;  member 
General  conference,  1892. 

Edward  W.  Ryan,  ministerial  delegate  Detroit  con¬ 
ference;  born  Mountain  Cove,  Va.,  Oct.  28,  1837; 
pastor  Ypsilanti,  Mich.;  joined  the  church  Cross 
Lanes,  Va.,  1857;  entered  ministry  West  Virginia 
conference,  1864;  alternate  delegate  to  General  con¬ 
ference,  1892,  from  West  Virginia  conference. 

JohD  Kirby,  ministerial  delegate  California  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Yorkshire,  England,  May  2,  1837;  resides 
Alameda,  Cal  ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  Wesleyan 
church  in  England,  1855;  entered  the  ministry  South 
Kansas  conference,  1874. 

D.  S.  Hammond,  ministerial  delegate  West  Vir¬ 
ginia  conference;  born  Moundsville,  W.  Va. ;  pastor 
Seventh-avenue  church,  Huntington,  W.  Va. ;  joined 
the  church  Moundsville,  1874;  entered  ministry  West 
Virginia  conference,  1877. 

John  A.  Kumler,  ministerial  delegate  Illinois  an¬ 
nual  conference;  born  Butler  county,  Ohio,  April  20, 
1838;  pastor  Springfield,  Ill. ;  joined  the  church  Dan¬ 
ville,  Ill. ,  December,  1864 ;  entered  ministry  Septem¬ 
ber,  1868. 


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70 


PLATE  XII.— 1.  J.  A.  Ruble.  2.  Charles  F.  Blumberg.  3.  D.  Stevenson,  4.  Edwin  Nottingham.  5.  Henry  Dietz. 
6.  David  C.  Osborne.  7.  J.  W.  Adams.  8.  Leonidas  Merritt.  9.  Thos.  A.  Fortson.  10.  Miss  Lydia  A.  Trimble. 
11.  Yoitsu  Honda.  12.  Mrs.  Jane  Bashford,  13.  D.  L.  Rader.  14.  E.  D.  Holtz.  15.  John  Sweet.  16.  T.  J.  Massey. 
17.  E.  W.  Ryan.  18.  John  Kirby.  19.  D.  S.  Hammond.  20.  J.  A.  Kumler. 


From  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate,  January  8,  iSg6. 

7i 


PLATE  Xm 


Samuel  Archibald  Thomson,  ministerial  delegate 
from  Southern  California  conference;  born  near  Dun¬ 
gannon,  County  Tyrone,  Ireland,  May  12,1844;  pas¬ 
tor  of  Vincent  church,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. ;  joined  the 
M.  E.  church  in  Canada,  May,  1862,  and  entered  the 
Ontario  conference  of  said  church,  April,  1864;  joined 
North  Ohio  conference  1869. 

John  Edwin  Williams,  ministerial  delegate  Gene¬ 
see  conference;  born  Kempville,  Canada,  Oct.  1, 1844; 
resides  Buffalo,  N.  Y. ;  presiding  elder ;  joined  the 
church  London,  Ontario,  Canada,  1858;  entered  the 
ministry  Central  New  York  conference,  1872 ;  mem¬ 
ber  of  General  conferences  1888, 1892 

McKendree  Hypes  Chamberlin,  lay  delegate  South¬ 
ern  Illinois  conference;  born  at  Lebanon,  111,1838; 
united  with  church  at  nineteen;  educated  at  McKen¬ 
dree  college;  LL.B.  at  Harvard  law  school,  1861; 
practiced  law  in  Illinois  and  Kansas;  secretary  of 
state  railroad  and  warehouse  commission  of  Illinois; 
president  of  McKendree  college,  Lebanon,  Ill. 

□  Jacob  Thimoleus  Jacobson;  lay  delegate  Sweden 
conference;  born  the  insel  Gotland,  May  6,  1840; 
wholesale  merchant  and  manufacturer,  Stockholm; 
joined  the  church,  Kalmar,  1872;  local  deacon;  author 
of  many  of  the  S  wedish-Methcdist  psalms  and  hymns ; 
member  General  conference  1892. 

Ephraim  H.  McKissack,  lay  delegate  Upper  Missis¬ 
sippi  conference;  born  Memphis,  Tenn.,  Nov.  23,  1859, 
and  engaged  as  principal  of  the  commercial  depart¬ 
ment  Rust  university,  Holly  Springs,  Miss. ;  joined 
the  church  at  Holly  Springs,  Miss.,  Oct.  23,  1889; 
local  preacher,  superintendent  Sabbath-school. 

Johannes  (John)  Ulrich  Wuhrmann,  ministerial 
delegate  Switzerland  conference;  born  Winterthur, 
Canton  of  Zirich,  March  9,  1855;  resides  Berne, 
Switzerland;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church 
Winterthur,  1871;  entered  ministry  Germany  and 
Switzerland  conference,  1879. 

Luigi  Mando,  lay  delegate  Italy  conference;  born 
Narnl,  Italy,  May  1,  1861 ;  engaged  in  government  de¬ 
partment  of  post  and  telegraph;  joined  church  Rome, 
1883;  steward;  member  of  General  conference,  1892. 

Johan  Edward  Edman,  ministerial  delegate  Swe¬ 
den  conference;  born  Karlskrona,  Sweden;  president 
of  the  theological  school  at  Upsala,  Sweden;  joined 
the  church  Stockholm,  Jan.  1878;  entered  ministry  in 
Sweden  conference  1880. 

Harvey  H.  Croz’er,  lay  delegate  Southern  Illinois 
conference;  born  Preston,  Ill.,  May  16,  1854;  mer¬ 
chant,  Carmi,  Ill. ;  joined  the  church  Carmi,  Ill., 
1885;  trustee,  district  Epworth  league  president. 

William  Burt,  ministerial  delegate  Italy  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Padstow,  England,  Oct.  23,  1852;  resides 
Rome,  Italy;  superintendent  Italy  mission;  joined 
church  Warren,  Mass.,  July,  1870;  entered  ministry 
New  York  East  conference  1881;  member  general 
conference, 1892. 


Albert  Julius  Nast,  ministerial  delegate  Central 
German  conference;  born  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  April  4, 
1846;  resides  Cincinnati,  Ohio ;  editor  Der  Christliche 
Apologete,  in  which  position  he  succeeded,  in  1892,  his 
father,  William  Nast,  D.D.,  who  had  been  editor  for 
more  than  half  a  century;  joined  the  church  Lima, 
N.  Y. ,  Oct.  1862;  entered  ministry  North  Ohio  confer¬ 
ence,  1869 

James  Harlan,  lay  delegate  Iowa  annual  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Lamotte  Prairie,  Ill.,  Aug.  26,  1820;  resides 
Mount  Pleasant,  Henry  county,  Iowa;  out-of  door 
business  man,  lawyer  by  profession;  United  States 
senator  from  Iowa,  1855-1865;  secretary  of  interior, 
1865;  joined  the  church,  Park  county,  Ind.,  1837; 
trustee  ;  member  general  conference,  1872. 

Chas.  Thompson  Allen,  ministerial  delegate  De¬ 
troit  conference;  born  Manchester,  Mich.,  Sept.  8, 
1841;  resides  Detroit,  Mich  ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Manchester,  Mich.,  1858;  entered  minis¬ 
try  Detroit  conference  1870;  member  general  confer¬ 
ence,  1884. 

Isaiah  Benj.  Scott,  ministerial  delegate  Texas  con¬ 
ference;  born  Midway,  Ky.,  Sept.  30,  1854,  and  en-' 
gaged  as  president  of  Wiley  university,  Marshall, 
Texas;  member  of  General  Missionary  committee; 
joined  the  church  Austin,  Texas,  1874;  entered  minis¬ 
try  Tennessee  conference,  1880;  member  General 
conference  1888, 1892. 

Wade  Hampton  Logan,  ministerial  delegate  Texas 
conference;  born  Paris,  Texas,  Oct.  20,1857;  resides 
Marshall,  Texas;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church 
Paris,  Texas,  Aug.  16,  1880;  entered  ministry  Texas 
conference,  1881;  member  General  conference  1892. 

Milton  D.  Buck,  ministerial  delegate  California 
conference;  born  Lyons,  N.  Y.,  March  29, 1852;  pastor 
Sixth-street  church,  Sacramento,  Cal. ;  joined  the 
church  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y  ,  March,  1865;  entered  min¬ 
istry  California  conference,  1875. 

Charles  Robert  Kellerman,  ministerial  delegate 
Idaho  conference;  born  Prussia,  Jan.  16,1850;  resi¬ 
dent  Boise  City,  Idaho;  presiding  -  elder ;  joined 
the  church  Ypsilanti,  Mich,  1868;  entered  ministry 
Detroit  conference  1873. 

James  Russell  Johnson,  lay  delegate  East  Tennessee 
conference;  born  Wythe  county,  Oct.  15,1845;  mer¬ 
chant  and  real-estate  dealer,  Pulaski  City,  Tenn. ; 
joined  the  church  Pine  Run,  1869;  trustee. 

Henry  F.  Ketron,  lay  delegate  Blue  Ridge  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Bloomingdale,  Tenn.,  April  16,  1847;  prin¬ 
cipal  Wesleyan  academy,  Chucky  City,  Tenn.;  joined 
the  church  Oak  Grove  1866 ;  member  General  confer¬ 
ence  1888. 

James  Hamilton,  ministerial  delegate  Michigan 
conference;  born  Trafalgar,  Canada,  Feb.  17,  1843; 
pastor  Grand  Rapids,  Mich  ;  j  Dined  the  church 
Burlington  Plains,  Canada,  1857;  entered  ministry 
Michigan  conference,  1863;  alternate  delegate  1888. 


From  Northwestern  Christina  Advocate,  Fehiuary  12,  iSg6. 

72 


PLATE  XIII. — 1.  S.  A.  Thomson.  2.  J.  E.  Williams.  3.  M.  H.  Chamberlin.  4.  J.  T.  Jacobson.  5.  E.  H.  McKissack. 
6.  J.  U.  Wuhrmann.  7.  Luigi  Mando.  8.  J.  E.  Edman.  9.  Harvey  H.  Crozier.  10.  William  Burt.  11.  Albert  J.  Nast. 
12.  James  Harlan.  13.  C.  T.  Allen.  14.  I.  B.  Scott.  15.  W.  H.  Logan.  16.  M.  D.  Buck.  17.  C.  R.  Kellerman.  18.  J.  R- 
Johnson.  19.  H  F.  Ketron.  20  James  Hamilton. 


From  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate,  February  12,  18)6. 

73 


PLATE  XIV, 


Peter  Jakob  Maximilian  Erikson,  ministerial  dele¬ 
gate,  Sweden  conference;  born  Gotland,  Sweden, 
May  16,1848;  resides  at  Stockholm,  Sweden  ;  presid¬ 
ing-elder,  member  parliament  of  Sweden;  joined  the 
church  Wisby,  Sweden,  Sept.  5,  1871;  entered  minis¬ 
try  1871. 

Julian  Franklin  Marshall,  ministerial  delegate 
Louisiana  cC^ference;  born  near  Richmond,  Va., 
April  16,  1847;  resides  at  New  Orleans,  La.;  presid¬ 
ing-elder;  joined  the  church  New  Orleans,  May, 
1869;  entered  ministry  1877 ;  member  General  confer¬ 
ence  1888 

James  Monroe  Cox,  lay  delegate  Little  Rock  con¬ 
ference;  born  Chambers  county,  Ala.,  Feb.  26,  1860; 
educated  Clark  university  and  Gammon  Theological 
seminary;  in  1886  accepted  and  still  holds  chair  of 
Greek  and  Latin  in  Philander  Smith  college,  Little 
Rock,  Ark. ;  member  General  conference  1892. 

Calvin  S.  Barlow,  lay  delegate  Puget  Sound  con¬ 
ference;  born  Cowlitz  county,  Wash. ;  merchant  and 
lumberman,  Tacoma,  Wash. ;  joined  church  Tacoma, 
1885;  trustee,  treasurer,  Puget  Sound  university. 

George  Washington  Stith,  lay  delegate  Mississippi 
conference;  born  near  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  Nov.  8,  1846; 
resides  Vicksburg,  Miss. ;  teacher  In  public  schools  of 
Mississippi  for  twenty-five  years;  joined  the  church 
Center  Chester,  Iowa,  Feb.  19,  1865;  local  preacher, 
Sunday-school  superintendent,  class  leader,  and 
steward ;  reserve  delegate  1892. 

James  M.  Shumpert,  ministerial  delegate  Missis¬ 
sippi  conference;  born  Itawamba  county,  Miss., 
March  23,  1853;  resides  Columbus,  Miss.;  presiding- 
elder;  joined  the  church  Itawamba  county,  1868;  en¬ 
tered  the  ministry  1872;  member  of  General  confer¬ 
ence  1880,  1884,  1888,  and  1892. 

Frank  Gary,  ministerial  delegate  from  Texas  con¬ 
ference;  born  South  Carolina,  Jan.  14,  1862;  pastor 
Galveston,  Texas;  joined  the  church  Palestine, 
Texas,  July  12,  1881 ;  entered  the  Texas  conference 
1885. 

Perry  Oliver  Jamison,  ministerial  delegate  Upper 
Mississippi  conference;  born  Columbus,  Miss.,  1848; 
resides  Yazoo  City,  Miss.;  presiding-eider;  joined 
the  church  Columbus,  Miss.,  July,  1867;  entered 
ministry  1871. 

Jotn  H.  Martin,  ministerial  delegate  Indiana  con¬ 
ference;  born  Pennsylvania,  Oct.  11,1838;  president 
of  Moores  Hill  college,  Moores  Hill,  Ind. ;  joined  the 
church  Dunbar,  Pa.,  1851;  entered  ministry  South¬ 
east  Indiana  conference,  1866. 

Joseph  C.  Hartzell,  ministerial  delegate  Louisiana 
conference;  born  1842,  near  Moline,  Ill. ;  began  pre¬ 
paring  for  ministry  when  fifteen  years  of  age;  joined 
Central  Illinois  conference  1868;  pastor  Ames  M.  E. 
church,  New  Orleans,  1870;  elected  assistant  corre¬ 
sponding  secretary  of  the  Freedmen’s  Aid  and  South¬ 
ern  Education  society  1882;  corresponding  secretary 
in  1888  to  present;  in  1870  founded  the  Southwestern 
Christian  Advocate  in  New  Orleans,  and  its  editor  until 


1882;  member  school  board  New  Orleans  for  several 
years;  member  General  conference  1876,  1880,  1884, 

1888,  and  1892. 

Henry  Clarence  Weakley,  ministerial  delegate  Cin¬ 
cinnati  conference;  born  Lebanon,  Ohio,  Dec.  9,  1846; 
corresponding  secretary  of  Elizabeth  Gamble  Dea¬ 
coness  Home  association,  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  joined 
the  church  Lebanon,  Ohio,  Feb.  1,  1864;  entered  min¬ 
istry  Cincinnati  conference  1877. 

George  Everett  Ackerman,  ministerial  delegate 
Alabama  conference;  born  Bath,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  16, 
1850;  professor  of  systematic  theology  in  Grant  uni¬ 
versity,  Chattanooga,  Tenn. ;  joined  the  church  Bath, 
N.  Y.,  1862;  entered  ministry  Genesee  conference 
1878 ;  was  two  years  president  Blue  Mountain  uni¬ 
versity;  member  of  the  General  conference  1892. 

Isaac  Chase  Libby,  lay  delegate  Columbia  River 
conference;  born  Cornish,  Maine,  March  1, 1852;  far¬ 
mer  and  local  preacher,  Spokane,  Wash. ;  joined  the 
church  Standish,  Me.,  1863. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Witherspoon,  ministerial  dele¬ 
gate  South  Carolina  conference;  born  Lancaster, 
S.  C.,  Oct.  27, 1856;  resides  Orangeburg,  S.  C. ;  presid- 
ing-elder;  joined  the  church  Columbia,  S.  C  ,  1874; 
entered  ministry  South  Carolina  conference,  1880; 
reserve  delegate  General  conference  1892. 

Andrew  J.  Taylor,  ministerial  delegate  Arkansas 
conference ;  born  Conway  county,  Ark. ,  April  20, 1852 ; 
presiding-elder  Fort  Smith  district;  joined  the 
church  August,  1867;  entered  ministry  in  Arkansas 
conference, 1877. 

W.  O.  Emory,  ministerial  delegate  Little  Rock  con¬ 
ference;  born  Springfield,  Mo.,  1852;  presiding-elder 
Little  Rock  district;  joined  the  church,  1870;  entered 
ministry  Little  Rock  conference,  1878;  chief  commis¬ 
sioner  negro  exhibit  of  Arkansas,  Atlanta  Cotton 
States  and  International  Exposition. 

Samuel  Allen  Cowan,  ministerial  delegate  Missis¬ 
sippi  conference;  born  Abbeville,  S.  C  ,  Sept.  15, 1854; 
resides  Vicksburg,  Miss. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Ripley,  Miss.,  August,  1865;  entered  the  min¬ 
istry,  1879;  member  General  conference  1888;  reserve 
delegate  1892. 

Joseph  Harrison  Phillips,  lay  delegate  Upper  Mis¬ 
sissippi  conference;  born  Newburn,  N.  C.,  Dec.  17, 
i856;  contractor  and  builder  and  undertaker,  Gren¬ 
ada,  Miss. ;  joined  the  church  Holly  Springs,  April, 
1871;  trustee,  superintendent  Sunday-school,  district 
league  president. 

Charles  Clinton  Morse,  lay  delegate  Louisiana  con¬ 
ference;  born  Hyde  Park,  Vt.,  Oct.  29,  1841;  business 
manager  Southwestern  Christian  Advocate,  New  Orleans, 
La. ;  joined  the  church  Hyde  Park,  Vt.,  1874;  trustee, 
steward,  and  class-leader. 

PhyloEzo  D.  Carr,  lay  delegate  Central  Tennessee 
conference;  born  Marlboro,  Ohio,  Nov.  16,  1850; 
manager  D.  H.  Baldwin  &  Co.,  music  business,  Nash¬ 
ville,  Tenn. ;  joined  the  church  Alliance,  Ohio,  1S66; 
trustee  and  steward. 


From  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate,  Fetiruary  ig,  iSg6. 

74 


PLATE  XIV.— 1.  Peter  J.  M.  Erikson.  2.  J.  F.  Marshall.  3.  J.  M.  Cox.  4.  C.  S.  Barlow.  5.  George  W.  Stith.  6. 
J.  M.  Shumpert.  7.  F.  Gary.  8.  P.  O.  Jamison.  9.  John  H.  Martin  10.  J.  C.  Hartzell.  11.  H.  C.  Weakley.  12.  Geo.  E. 
Ackerman.  13.  I.  C.  Libby.  14.  B.  F.  Witherspoon.  15  A.  J.  Taylor.  16.  W.  O.  Emory.  17.  S.  A.  Cowan.  18.  J.  H. 
Phillips.  19.  Charles  C.  Morse.  20.  P.  D.  Carr. 


From  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate,  February  ig,  iSg6. 


PLATE  XV, 


Richard  Sewell,  ministerial  delegate  Upper  Missis¬ 
sippi  conference;  born  Starkville,  Miss  ,  March,  1854; 
pastor,  Granada,  Miss. ;  joined  the  church,  Stark¬ 
ville,  March,  1S69;  entered  ministry,  1S82. 

Robert  Bunyan  Ayer,  lay  delegate  Florida  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Barnwell,  S.  C  ,  Sept.  17,1862;  tonsorlal 
artist,  Gainesville,  Fla  ;  joined  the  church  Barnwell 
county,  April  12, 1S75;  local  preacher  and  trustee. 

Ascph  Harmon  Gibbs,  lay  delegate  Alabama  con¬ 
ference;  born  Wedowee,  Ala.,  Aug.  18,  1864;  mer¬ 
chant  Wedowee;  joined  the  church  Antioch,  Ala., 
1875;  Sunday-school  superintendent. 

Philjp  Percy  Wright,  lay  delegate  Central  Alabama 
conference;  born  Lafayette,  Ala.,  August,  1863; 
principal  high  school,  Roanoke,  Ala  ;  joined  the 
church  Lafayette,  Ala.,  1883;  Sunday-school  superin¬ 
tendent,  class-leader. 

Luther  Stahl  Rader,  ministerial  delegate  St. 
John's  River  conference;  born  Tuscarawas  county, 
Ohio,  Jan.  19,1860;  pastor  Trinity  church,  Jackson¬ 
ville,  Fla. ;  joined  the  church  Tippecanoe,  Ohio,  Jan¬ 
uary,  1871;  entered  ministry  East  Ohio  conference. 

George  Franklin  Huntly,  lay  delegate  Louisiana 
conference;  born  Brandon,  Miss.,  Feb.  15,1853;  fore¬ 
man,  Shreveport,  La. ;  joined  the  church  Shreveport, 
March  20,  1888;  local  preacher,  steward,  trustee, 
class-leader. 

Guy  Hartwell  Bowen,  lay  delegate  Savannah  con¬ 
ference;  born  Reidsville,  Ga.,  June  20,1867;  resides 
Way  cross,  Ga.,  and  engaged  as  railway  postal  clerk; 
joined  the  church  Clark  university,  Atlanta,  Ga., 
Oct  1888;  trustee,  superintendent  Sunday-school. 

Jasper  L.  McBrien,  lay  delegate  West  Nebraska 
conference:  born  Newtonia,  Mo.,  March  19,  1867; 
dean  of  Orleans  college,  Orleans,  Neb. ;  joined  the 
church  Sterling,  Neb.,  February,  1889. 

Carl  J.  Larsen,  ministerial  delegate  Western  Nor¬ 
wegian  Danish  conference;  born  Bergen,  Norway, 
May  29,  1849  ;  resides  San  Francisco,  Cal. ;  presiding- 
elder;  joined  the  church  Chicago,  Ill.,  1869;  entered 
ministry  California  conference  1879. 

John  Wesley  Butler,  ministerial  delegate  Mexico 
conference;  born  Shelburne  Falls,  Mass.,  Oct  13, 1851; 
resides  Mexico  City, Mexico ;  preslding-elder ;  mission¬ 
ary;  joined  the  church  Chelsea,  Mass.,  1866;  entered 
ministry p New  England  conference,  1874;  member 
General  conference  1888.  £ 

Joseph  F.  Berry,  ministerial  delegate  Detroit  con¬ 
ference;  born  Aylmer,  Canada,  May  13,  1856;  editor 
Epworth  Herald,  Chicago;  joined  the  church  Port 
Huron,  Mich.,  1871;  entered  the  ministry  Detroit 


conference,  1874;  associate  editor  Michigan  Christian 
Advocate,  1886  to  1890 ;  member  General  conference 

1892. 

Julian  Fremont  Scott,  lay  delegate  North  China 
conference;  born  near  Steubenville,  Ohio,  July  28, 
1856 ;  resides  at  Pasadena,  Cal. ;  lay  medical  mission¬ 
ary,  home  on  health  leave;  joined  the  church  Ekey’s 
charge,  East  Ohio  conference,  June,  1876. 

Joshua  E.  Wilson,  ministerial  delegate  South  Caro¬ 
lina  conference;  born  Charleston,  S.  C.,Oct.  5,  1845; 
resides  Florence,  S.  C. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church*  Charleston,  S.  C.,  May  3,1869;  entered  min¬ 
istry  South  Carolina  conference,  1870;  member  of 
Book  committee;  member  General  conference  1880, 
1884,  1888,  1892. 

Robert  Thompson  Miller,  ministerial  delegate 
Pittsburg  conference;  born  Finleyville,  Pa.,  Jan.  11, 
1835;  resides,  Indiana,  Pa.;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Finleyville,  Pa.,  1854;  entered  the  minis¬ 
try  Pittsburg  conference  March,  1861. 

Edward  M.  Jones,  ministerial  delegate  Central 
Alabama  conference;  born  Hamburg,  Ala.,  Dec.  14, 
1861;  resides  Montgomery,  Ala.;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  Marion,  Ala.,  1883;  entered  minis¬ 
try  1883;  joined  Central  Alabama  conference  1889. 

Thomas  Jefferson  Clarke,  ministerial  delegate  South 
Carolina  conference;  born  Edgefield,  Sept.  15,1862; 
pastor  Charleston,  S.  C. ;  joined  the  church  Edge- 
field,  August,  1876;  entered  ministry  South  Carolina 
conference,  1S83. 

Wm.  Lewis  Bulkley,  lay  delegate  South  Carolina 
conference;  born  Greenville,  S.  C.,  March  23,  1861; 
professor  Latin  and  Greek  Claflin  university,  Orange¬ 
burg,  S.  C. ;  joined  the  church  Greenville,  1874; 
steward. 

Edward  S.  McChesney,  ministerial  delegate  Wis¬ 
consin  conference;  born  Latrobe,  Pa.,  Feb.  29,  1840; 
resides  Appleton,  Wis.;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Latrobe,  Pa.,  1858;  entered  ministry  Wisconsin 
conference, 1867. 

John  F.  Caples,  lay  delegate  Oregon  conference 
bom  Jeromeville,  Wayne  county,  Ohio,  Jan.  12,  1832; 
attorney-at-law  Portland,  Ore  ,  member  legislature 
1872-74,  presidential  elector  1892;  joined  the  church 
Bellefontaine,  Ohio,  1853;  trustee. 

James  F.  Holden,  lay  delegate  Oklahoma  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Prince  Albert,  Ontario,  Dec.  22,  1861; 
auditor  and  traffic  manager  C.  O.  &  G.  R.  R  ,  S.  Mc- 
Alester,  I.  T. ;  joined  the  church  Whitby,  Oat  ,  1874; 
steward,  class-leader,  Sunday-school  superintendent 
and  trustee. 


From  N yrthwestern  Christian  Advocate ,  March  4,  iSgO. 

76 


PLATE  XV.— 1.  R.  Sewell.  2.  R.  B.  Ayer.  3.  A.  H.  Gibbs.  4.  Philip  P.  Wright.  5.  L.  S.  Rader.  6.  George  F. 

Huntly.  7.  Guy  H.  Bowen.  8.  J.  L.  McBrien.  9.  Carl  J  Larsen.  10.  J  W.  Butler.  11.  Joseph  F.  Berry.  12.  J  F. 

Scott.  13.  J.  E.  Wilson.  14.  Robert  F.  Miller.  15.  Edward  M.  Jones.  16.  T  F.  Clarke.  17.  W.  L.  Bulkley.  18.  Ed¬ 

ward  S.  McChesney.  19.  John  F.  Caples.  20.  James  F.  Holden. 


From  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate,  March  4,  1S96. 


PLATE  XVI, 


Edward  W.  Henke,  ministerial  delegate  Northwest 
German  conference;  born  Chicago,  Ill.,  Aug.  5,  1848; 
pastor  Storm  Lake,  l'owa ;  joined  the  church  Blue  Isl¬ 
and,  Ill.,  January,  1865;  entered  ministry  Northwest 
German  conference  1871. 

,,,  G.  Reid  Townsend,  lay  delegate  West  Texas  con¬ 
ference;  born  Robeson  county,  N.  C,,  April  26,  1856; 
practicing  physician,  Victoria,  Texas;  joined  the 
church  Lumberton,  N.  C.,  1875;  trustee,  steward; 
member  General  conference  1888. 

Stephen  A.  Huger,  ministerial  delegate  Florida 
conference;  born  Sumter,  S.  C.,  Sept.  4,  1860;  re¬ 
sides  Jacksonville,  Fla  ;  preslding-elder ;  joined  the 
church  Lone  Star,  1876;  entered  ministry  Florida 
conference,  1885. 

Aristides  E.  P.  Albert,  ministerial  delegate  Louisi¬ 
ana  conference;  born  St.  Charles  parish,  La.,  Dec. 
10,  1853;  resides  Baldwin,  La.;  presiding-elder  and 
acting  president  Gilbert  academy,  Baldwin,  La.; 
joined  the  church  New  Orleans,  La.,  Feb.  1866;  en¬ 
tered  ministry  Louisiana  conference  1878;  assistant 
editor  Southwest  Christian  Advocate  1881-84,  editor 
1887-92;  member  of  General  conference  1884,  1888, 
1892,  and  1896. 

John  F.  Palmer,  ministerial  delegate  from  Okla¬ 
homa  conference;  born  Daviess  county,  Ind.,  June 
28,  1844;  resides  Guthrie,  O.  T. ;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  in  Daviess  county,  January,  1860; 
entered  ministry  Indiana  conference  1872 

Lemuel  Harvey  Stewart,  ministerial  delegate  East 
Ohio  conference;  born  near  Bloomingdale,  July  22, 
1847;  resides  Steubenville,  Ohio;  preslding-elder ; 
joined  the  church  Kilgore,  Ohio,  1866;  entered  min¬ 
istry  Pittsburg  conference  1874. 

William  Henry  Shier,  ministerial  delegate  Detroit 
conference;  born  Paterson,  N.  J.,  June  25,  1832;  pas¬ 
tor  Detroit,  Mich.;  joined  the  church  Ypsilanti, 
Mich  ,  1852;  entered  ministry  1861;  member  General 
conference  1880,  1884,  1892. 

Owen  H.  Clark,  ministerial  delegate  Southern  Illi¬ 
nois  conference;  born  Liverpool,  England,  May  8, 
1838;  resides  Belleville,  Ill.;  preslding-elder; 
joined  the  church  Calhoun,  Ill.,  1857;  entered 
ministry  Southern  Illinois  conference  1859;  member 
General  conference  1884,  1892. 

Edward  Thomson  Nelson,  lay  delegate  Central 
Ohio  conference;  born  Worthington,  Ohio,  Oct.  14, 
1845;  professor  of  geology  and  physiology  Ohio  Wes¬ 
leyan  university,  Delaware,  Ohio;  joined  the  church 
Delaware,  Ohio,  1864;  steward. 

Mrs.  Lois  S.  Parker,  lay  delegate  North  India  con¬ 
ference;  born  at  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  July  9,  1834;  re- 
sipes  Lucknow,  India;  missionary,  editor  Star  of 
India-,  joined  the  church  Concord,  N.  H.,  in  1856. 

Edwin  W.  Parker,  ministerial  delegate  North  In¬ 
dia  conference;  born  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  Jan.  21, 


1833;  presiding  -  elder  and  agent  publishing  house, 
Lucknow,  India;  joined  the  church  St.  Johnsbury, 

Vt.,  1853;  entered  ministry  Vermont  conference, 

1857;  member  General  conference  1884,  1892. 

Mrs.  Ada  Cythera  Butcher,  lay  delegate  North 
India  conference;  born  near  Roscoe,  Ill.,  Aug.  31, 

1861 ;  for  over  eight  years  a  missionary  in  India ;  wife 
of  Rev.  J.  C  Butcher,  M.D.,  North  India  conference; 
joined  the  church  Fairdale,  Ill  ,  when  about  sixteen.  _ 

Thomas  J.  Scott,  ministerial  delegate  North  iDdia 
conference;  born  New  Alexandria,  Ohio,  Oct.  4, 1835; 
resides  at  Delaware,  Ohio;  missionary  in  India,  home 
on  furlough  since  1862;  joined  the  church  New  Alex¬ 
andria,  Ohio,  Jan.  27,  1853;  entered  ministry  Pitts¬ 
burg  conference,  1860;  reserve  delegate  1874  and 
1884 

James  Morris,  lay  delegate  Bombay  conference; 
born  Chelmsford,  Essex,  England,  July  1,  1842;  archi¬ 
tect;  resides  Bombay,  India;  joined  the  church  Bom¬ 
bay  on  the  same  day  (in  February,  1872)  that  the 
church  was  organized  by  Bishop  William  Taylor;  ap¬ 
pointed  a  local  preacher  and  class-leader  and  a  stew¬ 
ard  in  1872,  and  has  retained  these  offices  ever  since. 

Ahlert  Gerhard  Bruns,  ministerial  delegate  South 
Germany  conference;  born  Oldenburg,  Sept  20,1833; 
resides  Stuttgart,  Wurtemherg;  pastor  Stuttgart 
circuit;  joined  the  church  Brake,  grand  duchy  of 
O'denburg,  1855;  entered  ministry  Germany  and 
Switzsrland  conference  1861. 

Daniel  Ormsby  Fcx,  ministerial  delegate  to  Bom¬ 
bay  conference;  born  Sprout  Brook,  N.  Y  ,  Jan.  10, 

1835;  resides  Poona,  India;  pastor  Poona  Marathi 
circuit;  joined  the  church  Sprout  Brook,  Oct.,  1851; 
entered  ministry  Michigan  conference  1860,  went  to 
India  in  1872;  reserve  delegate  1884. 

Madison  C.  B.  Mason,  ministerial  delegate  Savan-  — » 
nah  conference;  born  Houma,  La.,  March  27,  1859;  / 
resides  South  Atlanta,  Ga. ;  assistant  corresponding 
secretary  Freedmen’s  Aid  and  Southern  Education 
society;  joined  the  church  Houma,  La.,  April 6,  1878; 
entered  ministry  Louisiana  conference,  1883 

Oscar  Louis  Fisher,  ministerial  delegate  Austin 
conference;  born  near  Freeport,  Ill.,  Aug.  12  1844; 
president  of  Fort  Worth  university,  Fort  Worth, Tex. ; 
joined  the  church  Mt.  Morris,  III.,  Dac.  1868;  entered 
ministry  Upper  Iowa  conference  1871. 

William  Kepler,  ministerial  delegate  North  Ohio 
conference;  born  Akron,  Ohio,  Dec.  17,  1841;  pastor 
New  London,  Ohio;  joined  the  church  Delaware, 

Ohio,  April,  1859;  entered  ministry  North  Ohio  con¬ 
ference  1868;  reserve  delegate  1892. 

Matthew  M.  Alston,  ministerial  delegate  Savannah 
conference;  born  Franklinton,  N.  C.,  April  10,  1853; 
pastor  Rome,  Ga  ;  joined  the  church  Greensboro, 

N.  C.,  1876;  entered  ministry  Savannah  conference, 

1882 ;  member  General  conference  1880. 


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PLATE  XVI.— 1.  Edward  W.  Henke.  2.  G.  R.  Townsend.  3  S.  A.  Huger.  4.  A  E  P.  Albert.  5.  J.  F.  Palmer. 
<5.  L.  H.  Stewart.  7.  W.  H.  Shier.  8,  O.  H.  Clark.  9.  E.  T.  Nelson.  10.  Mrs.  L.  S.  Parker.  11.  E  W.  Parker.  12. 
Mrs.  A.  C.  Butcher.  13.  T.  J.  Scott.  14.  James  Morris.  15.  A.  G.  Bruns.  16  D.  O  Fox.  17.  M.  C.  B.  Mason.  18.  O.  L. 
Fisher.  19.  Wm  Kepler.  20.  M.  M.  Alston. 


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PLATE  XVU 


Hyre  D.  Clark,  ministerial  delegate  Central  Illi¬ 
nois  conference;  born  West  Virginia,  1847;  resides 
Galesburg,  Ill.;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church 
West  Virginia,  1872;  entered  ministry  Central  Illi¬ 
nois  conference, 18S0. 

James  Earl  Bills,  ministerial  delegate  Genesee  con¬ 
ference;  born  Perry,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  3,  1832;  resides 
Rochester,  N  Y. ;  presiding-elder ;  joined  the  church 
Wyoming,  N.  Y.,  1857;  entered  ministry  Genesee  con¬ 
ference  185S;  member  General  conference  1884,  1892. 

William  Henry  Brooks,  ministerial  delegate  Wash¬ 
ington  conference;  born  Port  Republic,  Md.,  Sept.  6, 
1859;  resides  Wasbirgton,  D.  C. ;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  Port  Republic,  Md.,  October,  1871 ; 
entered  ministry  Washington  conference,  1880. 

Anders  Olsen,  ministerial  delegate  Norway  confer¬ 
ence;  born  parish  of  Berg,  Aug.  30,  1837;  pastor  of 
Fifth  church,  Christiania,  and  editor  of  Kristeleg 
Tideiide  and  Borr.e  Vemsen;  joined  the  church  Fred- 
erikshold  1S59;  entered  ministry  1865;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1884, 1892. 

H.  Duerlng,  lay  delegate  North  Germany  confer¬ 
ence;  born  New  Ruppln,  Germany,  July  12,  1859; 
superintendent  of  second  largest  printing  concern  in 
Berlin,  Germany;  joined  the  church  New  Ruppln, 
Geruany,  when  fourteen;  class  leader,  steward, 
trustee,  Sunday-school  superintendent. 

Gideon  Glessler,  lay  d. legate  Switzerland  confer¬ 
ence;  born  St.  Gallen  Switzeriacd,  1869;  physician, 
Basel,  Switzerland;  joined  the  church  Basel,  Switz¬ 
erland,  1887;  exhorter,  class-leader,  steward. 

Carl  Schell,  ministerial  delegate  North  Germany 
conference;  born  Lahr,  Baden,  Germany,  May  7, 
1S52;  resides  Berlin,  Germany;  presiding-elder 
Berlin  district;  joined  the  church  Lahr,  Germany, 
when  seventeen;  entered  ministry  Germany  and 
Switzerland  conference,  1874. 

Friedrich  Gutekunst,  lay  delegate  from  South  Ger¬ 
many  conference;  born  Germany,  Feb.  17,1849;  re¬ 
sides  Bietigheim,  Germany;  local  preacher  (supply) ; 
joined  the  church  Wahlheim,  Wuerttemberg,  when 
sixteen. 

Henry  French,  lay  delegate  California  conference; 
born  Camelford,  Cornwall,  England,  Sept.  18,  1851; 
merchant  San  Jose,  Cal. ;  joined  the  church  Cleve¬ 
land,  Ohio,  1875;  steward;  candidate  for  governor 
California  Prohibition  ticket  1894. 

Robert  A.  Booth,  lay  delegate  Oregon  conference; 
born  Yamhill  county,  Ore.,  May  13,  1S58;  resides 
Grant’s  Pass,  Ore.;  bank  cashier  and  manager; 
joined  the  church  Drain,  Ore  ,  1885;  superintendent 
Sunday-school,  president  Epworth  league,  trustee, 
steward. 

Myron  C.  Wilccx,  ministerial  delegate  Foochow 


conference;  born  Gardner,  Grundy  county,  Ill.,  on 
Feb.  16, 1851 ;  resides  Kucheng,  near  Foocho  w,  China ; 
presiding-elder  Kucheng  district;  joined  the  church 
Onarga,  Ill.,  1869;  entered  ministry  Rock  River  con¬ 
ference,  1889;  home  on  furlough 

Johannes  U.  Wuhrmann,  ministerial  delegate 
Switzerland  conference;  born  W7inthertur,  Switzer¬ 
land,  1855;  resides  Berne,  Switzerland;  presiding- 
elder  Berne  district;  joined  the  church  Winthertur, 
Switzerland,  when  seventeen;  entered  ministry 
Germany  and  Switzerland  conference,  1879. 

Jefferson  Ellsworth  Scott,  ministerial  delegate 
Northwest  India  conference;  born  Steubenville, 
Ohio,  May  21,  1851;  resides  Muttra,  N.  W.  R  ,  India; 
presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  Wintersville, 
Ohio,  in  1868;  entered  the  ministry  Nevada,  1873; 
vacation  only  once  in  twenty-three  years’  service  in 
India;  home,  1885;  has  averaeed  1,000  converts  a 
year  on  Agon  district;  founded  mission  at  Muttra,  a 
great  Hindu  shrine. 

Christopher  Ludlow,  lay  delegate  Mexico  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Cornwall,  England;  resides  Pachuca, 
Hidalgo,  Mexico;  joined  the  church  Cornwall,  In 
youth;  local  preacher. 

Harry  Swann,  ministerial  delegate  West  Texas  con¬ 
ference;  born  in  Arkansas  March  9,  1854;  resides 
Waco,  Texas;  presiding-elder ;  joined  the  church 
Luling,  Texas,  1873 ;  entered  ministry  West  Texas  con¬ 
ference  1875;  member  General  conference  1888,  1892 

James  H.  Clendening,  lay  delegate  Arkansas  con¬ 
ference;  born  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y  ,  March  17,  1834; 
attorney-at-law,  Fort  Smith,  Arkansas;  joined  the 
church  Covington,  Ky,  1850;  trustee  and  steward. 

J.  B.  Trimble,  ministerial  delegate  from  Northwest 
Iowa  conference;  born  near  Ottawa,  Canada,  Jan.  30, 
1850;  resides  at  Sheldon,  Iowa;  presiding  -  elder ; 
joined  Wesleyan  Methodist  church  at  North  Gower, 
Canada,  1863;  entered  ministry  Montreal  conference 
1877 ;  transferred  to  Northwest  Iowa  1881. 

Luther  Judson  Price,  lay  delegate  Savannah  con¬ 
ference;  born  Sunnyside,  Ga.,  April  24,  1S56;  mer¬ 
chant  at  South  Atlanta,  Ga  ;  joined  the  church  at 
Shady  Grove,  Ga.,  Aug.  13,  1881;  Sunday-school 
superintendent,  steward. 

Thomas  Isaac  Keys,  lay  delegate  Mississippi  con¬ 
ference;  born  Brookhaven,  Miss.,  July  3,  1861;  real 
estate  agent  at  Ocean  Springs,  Miss. ;  joined  the 
church  Ocean  Springs,  Miss.,  March  10, 1884;  trustee, 
steward,  Sunday-school  superintendent. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Witherspoon,  ministerial  dele¬ 
gate  South  Carolina  conference;  born  Lancaster, 
S.  C.,  Oct.  27,  1856;  resides  Orangeburg,  S  C  ;  pre¬ 
siding-elder;  joined  the  church  Columbia,  S  C  ,  1874; 
entered  ministry  South  Carolina  conference  1880;  re¬ 
serve  delegate  1892. 


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PLATE  XVII—  1.  H  D.  Clark.  2.  J.  E.  Bills.  3.  W.  H.  Brooks.  4.  A.  Olsen.  5  H,  Duering.  6  G.  Giessler. 
7.  C.  Schell.  8.  F.  Gutkunst.  9.  Henry  French.  10.  R.  A.  Booth.  11.  M.  C.  Wilcox.  12,  J.  U.  Wuhrmann.  13  J.  E. 
Scott.  14.  C.  Ludlow.  15.  H.  Swann.  16  J.  H.  Clendening.  17.  J.  B.  Trimble.  18.  L.  J.  Price.  19.  T.  I,  Keys.  20. 
J.  B.  Witherspoon 


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PLATE  XVIII 


Morris  Bamford,  ministerial  delegate  Iowa  confer¬ 
ence;  born  near  Muscatine,  Iowa,  September,  1848; 
Dastor,  Oskaloosa.  Iowa;  entered  ministry  Iowa  con¬ 
ference  1871. 

Ebenezer  Burdett  Ailing,  lay  delegate  Austin  con¬ 
ference;  born  Holly  Springs,  Miss  ,  Dec.  26,  1852; 
merchant,  San  Antonio,  Texas;  joined  the  church 
Anoka,  Minn.,  1866;  trustee,  steward,  Sunday-school 
superintendent,  district  steward;  reserve  delegate 
1892. 

Luther  Barton  Wilson,  ministerial  delegate  Balti¬ 
more  conference ;  born  Baltimore,  Md.,  November  14, 
1856;  resides  Washington,  D.  C. ;  presiding-elder; 
joined  church  Baltimore  1866 ;  entered  ministry  1878. 

William  M.  Swindells,  ministerial  delegate  Phila¬ 
delphia  conference;  born  Marple,  England,  Nov.  29, 
1842;  resides  Philadelphia;  editor  Philadelphia  Meth¬ 
odist .,  Book  agent,  corresponding  secretary  Phila¬ 
delphia  Conference  Tract  society ;  joined  the  church 
Norristown,  Pa.,  1858;  entered  ministry  Philadelphia 
conference,  1862;  member  General  conference  1880, 
1884,  1888,  1892. 

John  Wesley  Edward  Bowen,  ministerial  delegats 
Washington  conference;  born  New  Orleans,  La  ,  Dec. 
3, 1855 ;  professor  of  historical  theology  in  Gammon 
Theological  seminary,  Atlanta,  Ga. ;  joined  the 
church  New  Orleans,  La,  Dec,  1872;  entered  min¬ 
istry  Tennessee  conference  in  1881  and  immediately 
transferred  to  New  England  conference;  professor 
Latin  and  Greek  Central  Tennessee  college,  Nash¬ 
ville;  professor  historical  theology  Morgan  college, 
Baltimore,  Md. ;  professor  Hebrew  in  Howard  univer¬ 
sity,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Samuel  Willson  Gehrett,  ministerial  delegate  Phila¬ 
delphia  conference;  born  Cassville,  Pa.,  Sept.  12, 
1844;  resides  Philadelphia;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Cassville,  Pa.,  August,  1868;  entered 
ministry  Philadelphia  conference,  1872;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1892. 

Samuel  W.  Thomas,  ministerial  delegate  Phila¬ 
delphia  conference;  born  Wilmington,  Del.,  Jan.  22, 
1830;  resides  Philadelphia;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Wilmington,  Del.,  Dec.  19,  1839;  entered 
ministry  Philadelphia  conference  1851 ;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1868,  1872,  1888,  1892;  agent  Phila¬ 
delphia  Book-room  and  Tract  society  seven  years. 

James  Monroe  Miller,  lay  delegate  Kansas  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Three  Springs,  Pa.,  May  6,  1852;  lawyer, 
Council  Grove,  Kan. ;  joined  the  church  Warrior’s 
Mark,  Pa.,  1870;  steward. 

Hiram  Harrison  Lowry,  ministerial  delegate  North 
China  conference;  born  Zanesville,  Ohio,  May  29, 
1843;  president  Peking  university,  Peking,  China; 
joined  the  church  Zanesville,  Ohio,  1857;  entered 
ministry  Erie  conference  1867. 

Jesse  Bowman  Young,  ministerial  delegate  St. 
Louis  conference;  born  Berwick,  Pa,  July  5,  1844; 


editor  Central  Christian  Advocate,  St.  Louis,  Mo.; 
joined  the  church,  Berwick,  Pa.,  1855;  entered  min¬ 
istry  East  Baltimore  conference,  1868;  author  of 
“What  a  Boy  Saw  In  the  Army;”  reserve  delegate 

1892. 

John  Lanahan,  ministerial  delegate  Baltimore  con¬ 
ference;  born  Harrisonburg,  Va. ;  in  charge  of  book 
depository,  Baltimore,  Md. ;  joined  thechurch  Harri¬ 
sonburg,  Va.,  when  a  boy;  entered  the  ministry  Bal¬ 
timore  conference,  1838 ;  agent  Methodist  Book  Con¬ 
cern,  New  York,  1868  to  1872;  member  of  General  con¬ 
ference  from  1856  to  1896. 

C.  C.  Gaver,  lay  delegate  Virginia  conference;  born 
Middletown,  Md.,  July  4,1841;  justice,  notary,  and 
fiduciary,  Hillsboro,  Va. ;  joined  the  church  Arnold 
Grove,  Hillsboro,  Oct.  15,  1856;  class-leader,  record¬ 
ing  steward;  member  General  conference  1888. 

John  Field,  lay  delegate  Philadelphia  conference; 
born  Tralee  Hill,  County  Londonderry,  Ireland,  Oct. 
8,1834;  merchant  and  banker,  Philadelphia ;  joined 
church,  Philadelphia,  in  1850;  superintendent  of  one 
Sunday-school  for  twenty-five  years;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference,  1892;  postmaster  Philadelphia  under 
President  Harrison. 

Wililam  Sommerville  Edwards,  ministerial  dele¬ 
gate  Baltimore  conference;  born  Martinsburg,  W. 
Va.,  April  23,  1834;  resides  Baltimore,  Md. ;  presid¬ 
ing  elder;  joined  the  church  Washington,  D  C.,  July 
1851;  entered  ministry  Baltimore  conference,  1856; 
member  General  conference  1880-92,  member  ecumen¬ 
ical  conference  in  London  1881. 

William  Fryhofer,  lay  delegate  Kansas  conference; 
born  Seymour,  Ind.,  Aug.  9, 1846;  farmer,  Randolph, 
RUey  county,  Kan. ;  joined  the  church  Santa  Claus, 
Ind.,  1857;  recording  steward,  class-leader,  Sunday- 
school  superintendent,  trustee. 

Isaac  Lemuel  Thomas,  ministerial  delegate  Wash¬ 
ington  conference;  born  Owenville,  Md.,  Dec.  4, 1860; 
pastor  of  Asbury  church,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  joined 
the  church  Baltimore,  Md.,  1877;  entered  ministry 
Washington  conference,  1882. 

John  Asbury  Motter,  ministerial  delegate  Kansas 
conference;  born  Monticello,  Ind.,  May  13,  1850;  re¬ 
sides  Baldwin,  Kan;  presiding-elder ;  joined  the 
church  Bloomington,  Ill.,  1864;  entered  ministry 
Kansas  conference  1878. 

Alaric  S.  Embree,  ministerial  delegate  Kansas  con¬ 
ference;  born  Lafayette,  Ind.,  July  9,  1843;  pastor, 
Topeka,  Kan.;  joined  the  church  Lafayette,  Ind., 
1869;  entered  the  ministry  1878;  presiding-elder. 

Irvine  Garland  Penn,  lay  delegate  Washington  an¬ 
nual  conference;  born  at  New  Glasgow,  Va.,  Oct.  7, 
1866 ;  manager  publishing  house,  Lynchburg,  Va. , 
joined  the  church,  Lynchburg,  Va.,  1885;  trustee, 
steward;  author  of  “ The  Af  ro-American  Press  and 
its  Editors;”  chief  commissioner  negro  building  and 
exhibit  Atlanta  exposition,  1895;  member  General 
conference  1892. 


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PLATE  XVIII.— 1.  M.  Bamford.  2.  E.  B.  Ailing.  3.  L.  B.  Wil30n.  5.  Wm.  M.  Swindells.  6. 

J.  W.  E.  Bowen.  7.  S.  W.  Gehrett.  8.  S.  W.  Thomas.  9.  J.  M.  Miller.  10.  H.  H.  Lowry.  11.  Jesse  Bowman  Young. 
12.  John  Lanahan.  13.  C.  C.  Gaver.  14.  Joh.n  Field.  15.  W.  S.  Edwards.  16.  Wm.  Fryhofer.  17.  I.  L.  Thomas.  18. 
J.  A.  Motter.  19.  A.  S.  Embree.  20.  I.  G.  Penn, 

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PLATE  XIX 


Charles  T.  Allen,  ministerial  delegate  Detroit  con¬ 
ference;  born  Washtenaw  county,  Mich.,  1S41;  re¬ 
sides  Detroit;  presiding-elder;  entered  ministry  De¬ 
troit  conference  1868;  member  General  conference 

1884. 


George  Reed,  ministerial  delegate  New  Jersey  con¬ 
ference;  born  Millville,  N.  J.,  June  26,  1842;  resides 
Island  Heights,  N.  J. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Millville,  N.  J  ,  February,  1859;  entered  min¬ 
istry,  New  Jersey  conference,  1865. 

George  Bates  Wight,  ministerial  delegate  New 
Jersey  conference;  born  Randolph,  Mass.,  Oct.  14, 
1841;  resides  Millville,  N.  J. ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
church  Milltown,  N.  J.,  1864;  entered  ministry 
New  Jersey  conference,  1866;  member  General  con¬ 
ference,  1880,  1884,  1888,  1892. 

Joseph  L.  Roe,  ministerial  delegate  New  Jersey 
conference;  born  Trenton,  N.  J.,  Aug.  80,  1838;  pastor 
Bridgeton,  N  J. ;  joined  the  church  Trenton,  1856; 
entered  ministry  1S63 

Jacob  B.  Graw,  ministerial  delegate  New  Jersey 
conference;  born  Rahway,  N.  J.,  Oct.  24,  1834;  pastor 
Trenton,  N.  J. ;  joined  the  church  Newark,  N.  J., 
1847;  entered  ministry  1855;  member  every  General 
conference  from  1872  to  1896. 

Henry  A.  Buchtel,  ministerial  delegate  Indiana 
conference;  born  Summit  county,  Ohio,  Sept.  30, 
1847;  pastor  Indianapolis,  Ind. ;  joined  the  church 
South  Bend,  Ind.,  February,  1866;  entered  ministry 
Northwest  Indiana  conference  1872. 

James  Redfern  Mace,  ministerial  delegate  New 
Jersey  conference;  born  St.  John,  province  of  New 
Brunswick,  June  25,  1857;  pastor  Camden,  N.  J.; 
joined  the  church  Carleton,  St.  John,  New  Bruns¬ 
wick,  1868;  entered  ministry  New  Jersey  conference, 


1882. 


Clement  W.  Shoemaker,  lay  delegate  New  Jersey 
conference;  born  Salem,  N.  J.,  April  23,  1848;  resides 
Bridgeton,  N.  J. ;  glass  manufacturer;  joined  the 
church  Salem,  N.  J,,  1865;  trustee,  class-leader,  and 
Sunday-school  superintendent. 


William  Wirt  Kendall,  lay  delegate  St.  Louis  con¬ 
ference;  born  West  Granby,  Conn,  Nov.  13,  1838; 
merchant,  Kansas  City,  Mo. ;  joined  the  church  Kan¬ 
sas  City,  Mo.,  1883;  trustee. 

Thomas  Holt  Murray,  lay  delegate  Central  Penn¬ 
sylvania  conference;  born  Clearfield  county,  Pa., 
April  5,  1845;  lawyer,  Clearfield,  Pa.;  joined  the 
church  Williamsport,  1865;  trustee;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1888,  1892. 


David  S.  Monroe,  ministerial  delegate  Central 
Pennsylvania  conference;  born  Leesburg,  Lou¬ 
don  county,  Va.,  April  15,  1833-  resides  Altoona,  Pa. 
presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  Baltimore  City 
November,  1848;  entered  ministry  Baltimore  confer¬ 
ence  1854;  member  General  conference  1876,  1880, 


1884, 1S88,  1892;  assistant  secretary  General  confer¬ 
ences  1876  and  18S0;  secretary  1884,  1888  and  1S92. 

James  F.  Rusling,  brevet  brigadier-general  United 
States  volunteers;  lay  delegate  New  Jersey  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Washington,  N.  J.,  April  14,  1834;  lawyer, 
Trenton,  N.  J. ;  joined  the  church  Trenton,  N.  J., 
1846;  local  preacher,  trustee,  Sunday-school  teacher, 
manager  General  Missionary  society. 

Edward  Waters  Savage  Hammond,  ministerial 
delegate  Lexington  conference ;  born  Baltimore,  Md. , 
Feb.  14,  1842;  editor  Southwestern  Christian  Advocate , 
New  Orleans,  La. ;  joined  the  church  Baltimore  when 
a  youth;  entered  ministry  1864;  member  General 
conference  1880,  1888,1892;  reserve  1S76, 1884 ;  elected 
editor  Southwestern  Christian  Advocate  by  the  General 
conference  1892. 

Isaac  Nelson  McCullough,  lay  delegate  Lexington 
conference;  born  Hampshire  county,  West  Virginia, 
Oct.  25,  1859;  employing  plasterer  and  music  teacher, 
Steubsnville,  Ohio. 

Richard  Edward  Gillum,  ministerial  delegate  Cen¬ 
tral  Missouri  conference;  born  a  slave  near  Ashley, 
Mo.,  Oct.  3,  1848;  enlisted  in  Eighteenth  United 
States  cavalry  in  1864;  resides  Lawrence,  Kan.; 
presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  near  Clarksville, 
Mo.,  1876;  entered  ministry  Missouri  conference 
1880;  member  General  conference  1S92. 

Joseph  Courtney,  ministerial  delegate  Lexington 
conference;  born  Shelbyville,  Ky.,  April  17,  1845;  re¬ 
sides  Lexington,  Ky. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Louisville,  Ky.,  1S88;  entered  ministry  Lex¬ 
ington  conference,  1873;  member  General  conference 


1884. 

Silas  C.  Swallow,  ministerial  delegate  Central 
Pennsylvania  conference;  born  Piainsville,  Pa., 
March  5,1839;  editor  Pennsylvania  Methodist  and  super¬ 
intendent  Methodist  Book  rooms,  Harrisburg,  Pa  ; 
joined  the  church  Wyoming,  Pa.,  1S52;  entered  minis¬ 
try  East  Baltimore  conference,  1863;  member  General 
conference  1S80. 

Samuel  S.  Murphy,  ministerial  delegate  South 
Kansas  conference;  born  Brownstown,  Ind.,  Oct.  22, 
1843;  pastor  Columbus,  Kan.;  joined  the  church 
Marengo,  Iowa,  1857 ;  entered  ministry  Iowa  confer¬ 
ence,  1S68. 

John  E.  James,  lay  delegate  Philadelphia  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Philadelphia,  Jan.  18, 1844;  professor  of 
surgical  diseases  of  women,  Hahnemann  college,  and 
physician,  Philadelphia;  joined  the  church  Phila¬ 
delphia,  1857;  steward  and  trustee;  reserve  delegate 


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1892. 


Jefferson  Emery  Brant,  ministerial  delegate  South 
Kansas  conference;  born  Sandyville,  Ohio,  Feb.  27, 
1837;  resides  Fort  Scott,  Kan.;  presiding  eldsr; 
joined  the  church  Patricksburg,  Ind.,  Feb.  19,1857; 
entered  ministry  Indiana  conference,  1860;  reserve 
delegate  1892. 


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PLATE  XIX.-l.  C.  T.  Allen.  2.  George  Reed.  3.  George  B.  Wight.  4.  J.  L.  Roe.  5.  J.  B.  McGraw.  6.  H.  A. 
Buchtel.  7.  J.  R.  Mace.  8.  C.  W.  Shoemaker.  9.  Wm.  W  Kendall,  10,  Thomas  H.  Murray.  11.  David  S.  Monroe. 
12.  James  F.  Rusling.  13.  E.  W.  S,  Hammond.  14.  I.  N.  McCullough.  15.  R.  E.  Gillum.  16.  Joseph  Courtney.  17. 
S.  C.  Swallow.  18.  S.  S  Murphy.  19.  John  E.  James.  20.  J.  E.  Brant. 


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PLATE  XX 


William  Maslin  Frysinger,  ministerial  delegate 
Central  Pennsylvania  conference;  born  Hanover, 
Pa.,  April  18,  1840;  pastor  Carlisle,  Pa.;  joined  the 
church  Lewistown,  Pa.,  1857;  entered  ministry  East 
Baltimore  conference,  1860. 

Ezra  H.  Yocum,  ministerial  delegate  Central  Penn¬ 
sylvania  conference;  born  Catawissa,  Pa.,  Sept.  20, 
1843;  resides  Sunburg,  Pa.;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Northumberland,  Pa.,  1862;  entered  min¬ 
istry  Central  Pennsylvania  conference  1S69;  member 
General  conference  1884. 

W.  E.  Gooding,  lay  delegate  Wilmington  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Galena,  Md.,  Dec.  22,  1851;  principal  Con¬ 
ference  academy,  Dover,  Del.;  joined  the  church 
Carlisle,  Pa  ,  November,  1S71;  steward. 

Isaac  Stewart  Ware,  ministerial  delegate  Missouri 
conference;  born  near  Savannah,  Mo.,  June  5,  1849; 
resides  Cameron,  Mo  ;  presiding-eider;  joined  the 
church  Clarinda,  Iowa,  1868;  entered  ministry  Mis¬ 
souri  conference,  1878. 

John  H.  Poland,  ministerial  delegate  Missouri 
conference;  born  Morgan  county,  Ohio,  Nov.  27, 1S47; 
sides  Kirksville,  Mo.;  presidlng-elder;  joined  the 
church  New  Plymouth,  Ohio,  March  1865;  entered 
ministry  Missouri  conference,  1872. 

Wm.  H.  Jackson,  lay  delegate  Wilmington  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Salisbury,  Md.,  Oct.  13,  1839;  manufac¬ 
turer  Salisbury,  Md. ;  joined  the  church  Salisbury, 
Md. ;  steward,  trustee. 

Frank  Gillespie  Browne,  ministerial  delegate 
North  Indiana  conference;  born  Westfield,  Ind., 
May  24,  1857;  pastor  Huntington,  Ind.;  joined  the 
church  Westfield,  Ind.,  April,  1874;  entered  ministry 

1876. 

John  Parsons,  ministerial  delegate  Oregon  confer¬ 
ence;  born  England  Jan.  7, 1855;  resides  Salem,  Ore. ; 
presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  England  1872;  en¬ 
tered  ministry  Oregon  conference  1877. 

Louis  E.  Barrett,  ministerial  delegate  Wilmington 
conference;  born  Easton,  Md.,  Aug.  16,  1846;  resides 
Wilmington,  Del.;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church 
Easton,  Md.,  1865;  entered  ministry  Wilmington  con¬ 
ference  1876. 

Thomas  B.  Neely,  ministerial  delegate  Philadelphia 
conference;  born  Philadelphia,  Pa,  June  12,  1S41; 
pastor  Union  chur'-h,  Philadelphia;  entered  ministry 
Philadelphia  conference,  1865;  member  General  con¬ 
ference  1884  to  1896. 

James  M.  Buckley,  ministerial  delegate  New  York 
East  conference;  born  Rahway,  N.  J. ;  editor  Chris¬ 


tian  Advocate ,  New  York;  entered  ministry  New 
Hampshire  conference,  1858;  member  General  confer¬ 
ence  1872  to  1896. 

Merritt  Hulburd,  ministerial  delegate  Wilmingtcn 
conference;  born  Monkton,  Vt.,  Oct.  15,1842;  pastor 
Wilmington,  Del.;  joined  the  church  Vergennes,  Vt., 
1853;  entered  ministry  Vermont  conference  1862. 

Enoch  J.  Hunt,  ministerial  delegate  St.  Louis  con¬ 
ference;  born  Saline  county,  Mo  ,  Oit  19,  1856;  re 
sides  Carthage,  Mo.;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Henry  county,  Mo.,  August,  1868;  entered 
ministry  St.  Louis  conference,  1878 

Wilbur  F.  Corkran,  ministerial  delegate  Wilming¬ 
ton  conference ;  born  Dorchester  county,  Md. ,  Dec  12, 
1853;  resides  Seaford,  Del.;  presiding-elder ;  joined 
the  church  Hurlock,  Md.,  1866;  entered  ministry 
Wilmington  conference,  1876. 

Alfred  Smith,  ministerial  delegate  Wilmington  con¬ 
ference;  born  Kent  county,  Del.,  July  28,  1852;  re¬ 
sides  Oxford,  Md. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  thechurc^ 
1869;  entered  ministry,  Wilmington  conference,  1879; 
member  General  conference  1892 

Manley  Sylvester  Hard,  ministerial  delegate  Wyo¬ 
ming  conference;  born  Penfield,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  4,  1842; 
resides  Kingston,  Pa.;  assistant  corresponding  secre¬ 
tary  Board  Church  Extension;  joined  the  church 
Hulberton,  N.  Y.,  when  about  eight  years  old;  en¬ 
tered  ministry  Oneida  conference,  1865;  member  gen¬ 
eral  conference  1884,  1888,  1892;  assistant  secretary 
last  three  General  conferences. 

Frank  H.  Tanner,  lay  delegate  Central  Ohio  con¬ 
ference;  born  Toledo,  Ohio,  Jan.  17, 1858;  vice-presi 
dent  and  treasurer  Northwestern  Elevator  and  Mill 
company,  Toledo,  Ohio;  joined, the  church  Toledo, 
Ohio,  1868;  trustee,  conference  steward. 

George  Edward  Gorton,  lay  delegate  Northwest 
Nebraska  conference;  born  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  March 
3,  1864;  pharmacist  Crawford,  Neb.;  joined  the 
church  Niobrara,  Neb.,  1S85;  steward. 

Levi  L  Sprague,  ministerial  delegate  Wyoming 
conference;  born  Beakman,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  23,  1S44; 
President  Wyoming  Seminary,  Kingston,  Pa. ;  joined 
the  church  LeRaysville,  Pa  ,  1865;  entered  ministry 
1874 ;  member  General  conference  1892. 

Jairus  Jerome  Bentley,  ministerial  delegate  Mis¬ 
souri  conference;  born  near  Ellington,  N.  Y., 
Dec  28,  1839;  resides  Maryville,  Mo.;  presiding- 
elder;  joined  the  church  Ellington,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  15 
1857;  entered  ministry  Erie  conference,  1S60;  mem¬ 
ber  General  conference  1884,1892;  member  Genera; 
Missionary  committee  1892,  1896 


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PLATE  XX.— 1  Wm.  M.  Frysinger.  2.  E.  H.  Yocum.  3.  Wm.  L.  Gooding.  4  I.  S  Ware.  5.  J.  H.  Poland.  6. 
Wm  H.  Jackson.  7.  Frank  G.  Browne.  8.  Jokn  Parsons.  9.  L.  E.  Barrett.  10.  T.  B.  Neely.  11.  J.  M.  Bucklev.  12. 
Merritt  Hulburd.  13.  E.  J.  Hunt.  14.  W.  F.  Corkran.  15.  Alfred  Smith.  16.  Manley  S.  Hard.  17.  Frank  H.  Tanner. 
18.  Geo.  E.  Gorton.  19.  L,  L.  Sprague.  20.  J.  J.  Bentley, 

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PLATE  XXI 


Alexander  Ashley,  lay  delegate  Baltimore  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  May  81,  1831;  clerk  in 
United  States  weather  bureau,  Washington,  D.  C. ; 
joined  the  church  Homestead,  Pa.,  Sept.  5,  1852; 
steward  and  trustee;  member  of  General  conference 
1888,  reserve  18S0  and  1884. 

Edward  J.  Gray,  ministerial  delegate  Central  Penn¬ 
sylvania  conference;  born  Centre  county,  Pa. ;  presi¬ 
dent  Dickinson  seminary,  Williamsport,  Pa.,  since 
1874;  entered  Ministry  East  Baltimore  conference, 
1859:  member  General  conference  1884, 1888, 1892. 

John  Wesley  Jamison,  lay  delegate  Texas  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Columbus,  Miss.,  April  15,  1859;  school 
teacher  Jefferson,  Texas ;  joined  the  church  Jefferson, 
Texas,  1880;  steward. 

Stephen  P.  Shipman,  ministerial  delegate  Virginia 
conference;  born  Waterford,  Va.,  May  24,  1S53  ;  re¬ 
sides  Falls  Church,  Va. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  at  Waterford,  1872;  entered  ministry  1889. 

William  J.  Martindale,  ministerial  delegate  South¬ 
west  Kansas  conference;  born  Chill,  Ind.,  Oct.  18, 
1841;  resides  Wichita,  Kan. ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Green  Oak,  Ind.,  1851;  entered  ministry 
North  Indiana  conference,  1863;  member  General  con¬ 
ference  1876. 

William  M.  Ridgway,  ministerial  delegate  Pnila- 
delphia  conference;  born  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  Nov.  7, 
1S34;  pastor  Middletown,  Pa. ;  joined  the  church 
Philadelphia,  Jan.  19, 1S50;  entered  the  ministry  Phila¬ 
delphia  conference  March,  1856. 

Granville  Lowther,  ministerial  delegate  Southwest 
Kansas  conference;  born  Oxford,  W.  Va.,  Jan.  19, 
1S48;  resides  Winfield,  Kan. ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Harmony,  W.  Va  ,  July,  1860;  entered 
ministry  Illinois  conference,  1875. 

Charles  C.  Zoller,  lay  delegate  Eastern  German 
conference;  born  Rochester,  N.  Y,,  June  8,  1S54; 
dealer  in  furniture,  Rochester,  N.  Y.;  joined  the 
church  Rochester,  N.  Y. ;  Sunday-school  superintend¬ 
ent,  steward,  president  German  Young  Men’s  Chris¬ 
tian  association. 

Christian  B.  Stemen,  lay  delegate  North  Indiana 
conference;  born  near  Bremen,  Ohio,  Dec.  3,  1836; 
resides  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind. ;  physician  and  surgeon,  dean 
Ft.  Wayne  college  of  medicine,  editor  Ft.  Wayne 
Journal  of  Medical  Sciences;  joined  the  church  near  Ft. 
Jennings,  Ohio,  March,  1860;  local  elder. 

Robert  Remington  Doherty,  lay  delegate  Newark 
conference;  born  in  New  York  about  1S49;  resides 
Jersey  City,  N.  J. ;  recording  secretary  Sunday- 
school  union,  vice-president  Epworth  league;  editor 
ounday-school  lesson  notes  and  questions,  Methodist 
Book  Concern;  joined  the  church  New  York  city, 
January,  1863;  member  General  conference  1884, 1888. 

John  Franklin  Goucher,  ministerial  delegate  Balti¬ 
more  conference;  born  Waynesboro,  Pa.,  June  7, 
1845;  president  of  Woman’s  college,  Baltimore, 


Ml  ;  joined  the  church  Monongahela  City,  Pa., 
Dec.  4,  1859;  entered  ministry  Baltimore  conference 
1S69;  member  of  General  conference  1888,  1892. 

Stephen  Livingston  Baldwin,  ministerial  delegate 
Newark  conference;  born  Somerville,  N.  J.,  Jan. 
11,  1835;  resides  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  recording  secre¬ 
tary  Missionary  society;  joined  the  Reformed  church, 
Somerville,  N.  J..  June,  1847;  M,  E.  church,  Newark, 
N.  J.,  April,  1855;  entered  ministry  Newark  confer¬ 
ence,  1858;  member  General  conference  1880,  from 
Foochow  conference;  missionary  in  China  1859  1880; 
superintendent  Foochow  mission,  1873  1877;  editor  of 
Chinese  Recorder  several  years;  assisted  in  translating 
scriptures,  Discipline  of  M.  E.  church,  etc.,  into  the 
Foochow  colloquial  dialect. 

Henry  Augustus  Monroe,  ministerial  delegate  Dela¬ 
ware  conference;  born  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  Sept.  3, 
1847;  resides  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  presiding  -  elder; 
joined  the  church  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  February, 
1867;  entered  ministry  Delaware  conference  1878; 
reserve  delegate  1884;  member  Centennial  confer¬ 
ence,  Baltimore,  1S84.  , 

James  Allison,  lay  delegate  Southwest  Kansas  con¬ 
ference;  born  East  Palestine,  Ohio,  Jan.  1,  1838; 
secretary-treasurer  Cold  Storage  Co.,  Wichita,  Kan. ; 
joined  the  church  Chesterville,  Ohio,  1858;  steward 
and  trustee. 

William  Andrews  Leitch,  lay  delegate  Baltimore 
conference;  born  in  Missouri,  February,  1846;  bank 
teller  Baltimore,  Md. ;  joined  the  church  Baltimore, 
Md.,  1863;  recording  steward. 

William  Alfred  Quayle,  ministerial  delegate  St. 
Louis  conference;  born  Parkville,  Mo.,  June  25, 1860; 
pastor  Kansas  City,  Mo. ;  joined  the  church  Auburn, 
Kan.,lS7S;  entered  ministry Kansas  conference  1886. 

T.  M.  Hutto,  lay  delegate  Southwest  Kansas  con¬ 
ference;  born  near  Kokomo,  Ind.,  June  21,  1854; 
jeweler,  Kingman,  Kan. ;  joined  the  church  Pleasant 
Grove,  Ind.,  November,  1861;  steward,  trustee,  and 
Sunday-school  superintendent. 

Vincent  Boreing,  lay  delegate  Kentucky  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Washington  county,  Tenn.,  Nov.  24,  1839; 
banker  and  merchant,  London,  Ky. ;  joined  the  church 
Boreing,  Ky  ,  1859;  local  preacher;  member  General 
conference  1SS0. 

George  W.  Bowen,  lay  delegate  South  Kansas  con¬ 
ference;  born  Jackson,  Ohio,  Feb.  21, 1831 ;  in  milling 
business,  Independence,  Kan, ;  joined  the  church  Ot¬ 
tumwa,  Iowa,  Feb.  22,  1852;  trustee,  steward,  class- 
leader,  and  Sunday-school  superintendent. 

William  H.  Sweet,  ministerial  delegate  Northwest 
Kansas  conference;  born  Brown  county,  Ohio,  July 
14,  1S43;  resides  Salina,  Kan. ;  presiding-elder ;  joined 
the  church  Five  Mile,  Ohio,  Feb.,  1853;  entered  min¬ 
istry  Kansas  conference  1S73;  member  General  con¬ 
ference  1892;  was  pastor  at  Holton,  Kan.,  from  1877 
to  1879;  president  Baker  university  from  1879  to  1886 


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SS 


PLATE  XXI.— 1.  Alex.  Ashley.  2.  Edw.  J.  Gray  3.  J.  W.  Jamison.  4.  S.  P.  Shipman.  5.  Wm.  J.  Martindale. 
<5.  Wm.  M.  Ridgway.  7.  Granville  Lowther.  8.  C.  C  Zoller.  9.  C.  B.  Stemen.  10  R.  R.  Doherty.  11.  John  F.  Goucher. 
12.  S.  L.  Baldwin  13.  H.  A  Monroe.  14.  James  Allison.  15,  Wm.  A,  Leitch.  16.  W.  A.  Quayle.  17,  T.  M.  Hutto.  18. 
Vincent  Boreing.  19.  Geo.  W.  Bowen.  20.  W.  H.  Sweet. 


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PLATE  XXII 


George  W.  Smith,  ministerial  delegate  Newark 
conference;  born  Washington,  N.  J.,  Sept.  1,  1S45; 
resides  Paterson,  N.  J.;  presiding-elder  Elizabeth 
district;  joined  the  church  Washington,  N.  J.,  Octo¬ 
ber,  1861;  entered  ministry  Newark  conference,  1873. 

John  William  Jackson,  ministerial  delegate  Central 
Missouri  conference;  born  Zanesville,  Ohio,  April  15, 
1853;  resides  Sedalia,  Mo.;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Ironton,  Mo.,  1881;  entered  ministry  St. 
Louis  conference  1S82. 

J.  S.  Hughes,  ministerial  delegate  Philadelphia 
conference;  born  Springfield,  Pa.,  Dec.  25, 1840;  re¬ 
sides  Philadelphia,  Pa. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Springfield,  Pa.,  1859 ;  entered  ministry  Phila¬ 
delphia  conference,  1864. 

Albert  D.  Peake,  lay  delegate  New  York  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Hamden,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  17,  1S46;  resides 
Walton,  N.  Y. ;  lawyer;  joined  the  church  Hamden, 
N.  Y.,  1859;  trustee,  steward,  Sunday-school  super¬ 
intendent,  president  district  Ep  worth  league. 

Horace  Nelson  Herrick,  ministerial  delegate  North 
Indiana  conference;  born  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.,  June  17, 
1846;  resides  Muncie,  Ind.;  preslding-elder ;  joined 
the  church  Bowers  Chapel,  Allen  county,  Ind  ,  Jan. 
1,1866;  entered  ministry  North  Indiana  conference, 
1868. 

James  M.  King,  ministerial  delegate  New  York 
conference;  born  Girard,  Pa.,  March,  18,  1839;  pastor 
New  York  City;  entered  ministry  Troy  conference, 
1868;  member  General  conference  18S4. 

Abraham  J.  Palmer,  ministerial  delegate  New 
York  conference;  born  Frenchtown,  N.  J  ,  Jan.  18, 
1847;  pastor  St.  Paul’s  church,  New  York  city; 
joined  the  church  Woodrad,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y., 
1860;  entered  ministry  Newark  conference,  1871; 
member  General  conference  1892;  secretary  enter¬ 
tainment  committee  at  General  conference  1888; 
chairman  same  committee  1892, 1896. 

Elias  Slllick  Osbon,  ministerial  delegate  New  York 
conference;  born  Middlebury,  Vt. ;  resides  Kingston, 
N.  Y  ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  New  York 
city  1858;  entered  ministry  1863;  member  original 
board  of  control  Epworth  league. 

Charles  C.  McCabe,  ministerial  delegate  New  York 
conference;  born  Athens,  Ohio,  Oct.  11,  1836;  corre¬ 
sponding  secretary  Missionary  society,  N.  Y. ;  entered 
ministry  Ohio  conference,  1860;  chaplain  U.  S.  army; 
captured  Winchester,  Va.,  June,  1863;  four  months 
in  Libby  prison;  assistant  secretary  Board  Church 
Extension,  1868  to  18S4,  when  elected  Missionary  sec- 
recary ;  member  General  conference  several  times. 

William  V.  Kelley,  ministerial  delegate  New  York 
East  conference;  born  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  1845;  editor 


of  the  Methodist  Review,  New  York;  joined  the  church 
Pennington,  N.  J.,1859;  entered  ministry  New  Jersey 
conference,  1869. 

Henry  A.  Buttz,  ministerial  delegate  Newark  con¬ 
ference  ;  president  Drew  Taeological  seminary,  Madi¬ 
son,  N.  J  ;  entered  ministry  Newark  conference,  1858; 
member  General  conference  several  times. 

James  Roscoe  Day,  ministerial  delegate  New  York 
conference;  born  Whitneyville,  Maine,  Oct.  17,  1845; 
chancellor  of  Syracuse  university,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. ; 
joined  the  church  Monmouth,  Maine,  1866;  entered 
ministry  Maine  conference,  1872;  member  General 
conference  In  1888,  reserve  1892,  member  General 
Missionary  committee. 

John  Wesley  Stewart,  ministerial  delegate  South 
Kansas  conference;  born  Washington,  Ohio,  Jan.  13, 
1851 ;  pastor  Ottawa,  Kan. ;  joined  the  church  Bethel, 
Ind.,  Feb.  16,1860;  entered  ministry  South  Kansas 
conference,  1S76. 

John  B.  Morrison,  lay  delegate  Northwest  Kan¬ 
sas  conference;  born  Brookfield,  Ohio,  July  30,  1S39; 
merchant  Colby,  Kansas;  joined  the  church  Union- 
ville,  Iowa,  1873;  steward. 

William  Hazael  Rose,  ministerial  delegate  South¬ 
west  Kansas  conference;  born  South  Bethany,  Ind., 
Dec.  24,  1852;  resides  Dodge  City,  Kan.;  presiding- 
elder;  joined  the  church  South  Bethany,  Ind.,  Feb. 
1863;  entered  ministry  South  Kansas  conference, 
1877. 

Moses  Smith,  ministerial  delegate  West  Texas  con¬ 
ference;  born  Alleyton,  Texas,  Jan.  1,1857;  resides 
Austin,  Texas;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church 
Columbus,  Texas,  Aug.  4, 1875 ;  entered  ministry  West 
Texas  conference  1882. 

George  H.  Hill,  ministerial  delegate  North  Indiana 
conference;  born  Lunenburg,  Vt.,  Dec.  30, 1839;  pas¬ 
tor  Muncie,  Ind. ;  joined  the  church  Bethel,  Vt.,  1853; 
entered  ministry  North  Indiana  conference,  1870. 

William  D.  Parr,  ministerial  delegate  North  In¬ 
diana  conference;  born  Big  Springs,  Ind.,  Nov.  10, 
1854;  pastor  Kokomo,  Ind.;  joined  the  church  Big 
Springs,  Ind.,  1868;  entered  ministry  North  Indiana 
conference,  1878. 

George  Cookman  Sturgis,  lay  delegate  West  Vir¬ 
ginia  conference;  born  Poland,  Ohio,  Aug.  16,  1842; 
attorney-at-law  Morgantown,  W.  Va. ;  joined  the 
church  Poland,  Ohio,  1S56;  steward,  trustee,  and 
Sunday-school  superintendent. 

William  Wilson  Evans,  ministerial  delegate  Central 
Pennsylvania  conference;  born  Lewistown,  Sept. 24, 
1840;  resides  Harrisburg,  Pa.;  presiding-elder ;  joined 
the  church  Lewistown,  Pa.,  Nov.  22,1857;  entered 
ministry  East  Baltimore  conference  1861;  member 
General  conference  1S80. 


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PLATE  XXII.— 1.  George  W.  Smith.  2.  J.  W  Jackson.  3.  J.  S.  Hughes.  4.  A.  D.  Peake.  5.  H.  N.  Herrick. 
6.  James  M.  King.  7.  A.  J  Palmer.  8.  E  S.  Osbon  9.  C.  C.  McCabe.  10.  Wm.  V.  Kelley.  11.  Henry  A  Buttz.  12. 
J.  R.  Day.  13.  J  W.  Stewart.  14.  J.  B.  Morrison.  15.  W.  H.  Rose.  16.  Moses  Smith.  17.  Geo.  H.  Hill.  18.  Wm.  D- 
Parr.  19.  Geo.  C  Sturgis.  20.  Wm.  W.  Evans. 


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91 


PLATE  XXIII 


Wm.  H.  Underwood,  ministerial  delegate  Kansas 
conference;  born  Seneca  Palis,  N.  Y.,  April  13,  1841; 
resides  Clay  Center,  Kan.;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Woodstock,  Ill  ,  January,  1857;  entered 
ministry  Rock  River  conference  in  1869. 

Alexander  W.  Biddle,  lay  delegate  St.  John’s  River 
conference;  born  near  Jonesborough,  Tenn.,  April  1, 
1S83 ;  fruit  raiser,  Lawtey,  Florida ;  joined  the  church 
Macon,  Ill.,  1865;  steward. 

Henry  L.  Billups,  lay  delegate  Central  Missouri 
conference;  born  Goliad,  Texas,  Jan.  10,1865;  teacher 
in  George  R.  Smith  college,  Sedalia,  Mo. ;  joined  the 
church  Goliad,  1881;  trustee. 

Edward  James  Sawyer,  lay  delegate  South  Caro¬ 
lina  conference;  born  Fayetteville,  N.  C  ,  Oct.  16, 
1854;  editor  and  lawyer,  Bennettsville,  S.  C  ;  joined 
the  church  Bennettsville,  S.  C.,  August,  18S3;  stew¬ 
ard  and  Sunday-school  superintendent;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1892. 

Edward  Wesley  Allen,  ministerial  delegate  North¬ 
west  Kansas  conference;  born  Warren  county,  Ind., 
Sept.  17,  1839;  pastor  Mankato,  Kan  ;  joined  the 
church  at  Juda,  Wis.,  1858;  entered  ministry  West 
Wisconsin  conference  in  1866;  reserve  in  1892. 

Micah  J.  Talbot,  ministerial  delegate  New  England 
Southern  conference;  born  East  Machias,  Maine, 
Feb.  25, 1821;  resides  Providence,  R.  I. ;  supernumer¬ 
ary,  joined  the  church  East  Machias,  Me.,  1841; 
entered  ministry  New  England  Southern  conference, 
1845 ;  member  General  conference  1S6S,  1S72, 1880, 1884. 

David  Gordon,  lay  delegate  New  England  Southern 
conference;  born  Glasgow,  Scotland,  June  11,  1840; 
merchant  Hazardvilie,  Conn. ;  joined  the  church  Haz- 
ardville,  1856. 

Charles  Fremont  Vodery,  lay  delegate  Washington 
conference;  born  Baltimore,  Md.,  Aug.  4,  1861;  mer¬ 
chant,  Baltimore,  Md  ;  joined  the  church  Baltimore, 
February,  1889 ;  trustee. 

Joseph  Ellis  Coffee  Farnham,  lay  delegate  New 
England  Southern  conference;  born  Nantucket, 
Mass.,  Jan.  18,  1849;  employing  printer,  East  Provi¬ 
dence,  R.  I.;  joined  the  church  Providence,  1866; 
trustee. 

Thomas  Jefferson  Everett,  ministerial  delegate 
New  England  Southern  conference;  born  Polk 
county,  Iowa,  May  30,  1854;  resides  New  Bedford, 
Mass.;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  Indianola, 
Iowa,  1869;  entered  ministry  New  England  Southern 
conference  1878. 

George  Edward  Reed,  ministerial  delegate  New 
York  East  conference;  born  Brownville,  Maine, 
March  28,  1846;  president  Dickinson  college,  Carlisle, 


Penn. ;  joined  the  church  Lowell,  Mass.,  1864;  entered 
ministry  Providence  conference  (now  New  England 
Southern)  1870. 

Samuel  Foster  Upham,  ministerial  delegate  New 
England  conference;  born  Duxbury,  Mass.,  May  19, 
1834 ;  professor  Drew  Theological  seminary,  Madison, 
N  J. ;  joined  the  church  Bourne,  Mass.,  Oct.  4, 1S46; 
entered  ministry  New  England  Southern  conference, 
1856;  member  General  conference  1880, 1888,  1892. 

Charles  J.  Little,  ministerial  delegate  Northern 
New  York  conference;  born  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  Sept. 
21,  1840;  president  Garrett  Biblical  institute,  Evans¬ 
ton,  Ill.;  entered  ministry  Philadelphia  conference, 
1862;  member  General  conference  1888, 1892. 

John  S.  Patterson,  lay  delegate  North  Indiana  con¬ 
ference;  born  Buckhannon,  Va.,  July  22,  1846;  mer¬ 
chant,  Knightstown,  Ind.;  joined  the  church, 
Charleston,  Va.,  1856;  president  Richmond  District 
Epworth  league. 

Stephen  Olin  Benton,  ministerial  delegate  New 
England  Southern  conference;  born  Middletown, 
Conn.,  April  30,  1S49;  pastor  Fall  River,  Mass.; 
joined  the  church  Providence,  R.  I.,  1864;  entered 
ministry  Providence  conference  1870;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1888,  1892. 

Rev.  E.  Asada,  reserve,  will  sit  as  lay  delegate 
from  Japan.  He  is  one  of  the  brightest  Japanese 
young  men  coming  from  a  foreign  land.  He  reads 
English,  Hebrew,  Greek,  Latin,  Arabic,  and  is  a 
scholar  and  teacher  in  native  Japanese.  After 
graduating  from  Northwestern  university  he  took 
post-graduate  studies  at  Chicago  university.  He  is  a 
teacher  in  pro-Anglo  Japanese  college,  Tokyo. 

John  E.  Andrus,  lay  delegate  New  York  confer¬ 
ence  ;  born  Pleasantville,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  16, 1841;  manu¬ 
facturer  Yonkers,  N.  Y  ;  joined  the  church  1860; 
president  trustees  American  university,  Washington, 
D.  C. 

George  Hubert  Bates,  ministerial  delegate  New 
England  Southern  conference;  born  Topsfield,  Mass., 
May  3,  1839 ;  resides  Norwich,  Conn. ;  presiding  elder ; 
joined  the  church  Scituate,  Mass,  1S57;  entered 
ministry  Providence  conference,  1S70. 

Edward  S.  Chenoweth,  lay  delegate  Northwest 
Kansas  conference;  born  Warren  county,  Ind.,  Sept. 
7,  1852;  banker,  McCracken,  Kan. ;  joined  the  church 
McCracken;  trustee,  Sunday-school  superintendent. 

Andrew  Schriver,  ministerial  delegate  New  York 
conference;  born  La  Grange,  N.  Y.,  D~c.  16,  1S40; 
resides  Newburgh,  N.  Y  ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Hancock,  N.  Y.,1859;  entered  ministry 
1S67. 


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PLATE  XXIII.— 1.  VVm.  H.  Underwood.  2.  A.  W.  Biddle.  3.  H.  L.  Billups.  4  E.  J.  Sawyer.  5.  E.  W.  Allen. 
6.  M.  J  Talbot.  7.  David  Gordon  8.  C  F.  Vodery.  9.  J.  E.  C.  Farnham.  10.  T.  J.  Everett.  11.  George  E.  Reed.  12. 
.  F.  Upham.  13.  Charles  J.  Little.  14.  J.  S.  Patterson.  15.  S.  O.  Benton.  16.  E.  Asada  17.  John  E  Andrus.  18. 
.  H.  Bates.  19.  E.  S.  Chenoweth.  20.  Andrew  Schriver. 


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93 


PLATE  XXIV. 


Edward  Robert  Thorndike,  ministerial  delegate 
NTew  England  conference;  born  Dixmont,  Me.,  Sept. 
22,  1841;  resides  Springfield,  Mass.;  presiding  elder ; 
joined  the  church  Dixmont,  Me.,  May  28,  1866;  en¬ 
tered  ministry  East  Maine  conference,  1867. 

Augustus  E.  Mahin,  ministerial  delegate  North 
Indiana  conference;  born  White  county,  Indiana, 
Oct.  19,  1843;  resides  at  Richmond,  Ind.;  presiding 
elder;  joined  the  church  Geneseo  camp-meeting, 
Ind.,  1859;  entered  ministry  North  Indiana,  1869; 
member  of  General  conference  1892. 

Thomas  J.  Langston,  lay  delfgate  St.  Louis  confer¬ 
ence;  born  at  Green  county,  Mo.,  Jan.  12,  1854;  mer¬ 
chant  West  Plains,  Mo.;  joined  the  church  West 
Plains,  Mo  ,  1881;  trustee,  steward,  exhorter. 

Josiah  Cook  Darling,  ministerial  delegate  North¬ 
ern  New  York  conference;  born  Utica,  N.  Y.,  April 
24,  1842;  resides  Ogdensburg,  N  Y. ;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  Utica,  N.  Y.,  1859;  entered  minis¬ 
try  Central  New  York  conference  1870. 

Oliver  Sherman  Baketel,  ministerial  delegate  New 
Hampshire  conference;  born  Greentown,  Ohio,  Oct. 
18,1849;  resides  Manchester,  N.  H. ;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  Canton,  Ohio,  Feb.  1, 1861;  entered 
ministry  Pittsburg  conference,  1870;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1892. 

Abram  I.  Decker,  lay  delegate  Wyoming  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Summitville,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  21,  1850;  tan¬ 
ner,  Waverly,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church  Elmira, 
N.  Y  ,  1863;  superintendent  Sunday-school,  trustee. 

John  G.  Eckman,  ministerial  delegate  Wyoming 
conference;  born  Sunbury,  Pa  ,  Oct.  7, 1836;  resides 
Scranton,  Pa.;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church 
Sunbury,  Pa.,  Feb.  13,  1850;  entered  ministry 
Wyoming  conference,  1860;  member  of  General  con¬ 
ference  1876,  1880,  18S4,  1888,  1S96;  member  Centen¬ 
nial  conference,  Baltimore,  1884. 

Asa  Jessup  Van  Cleft,  ministerial  delegate  Wyo¬ 
ming  conference;  born  Middletown,  N.  Y.,  March  3, 
1840;  resides  Oneonta,  N  Y  ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Waverly,  N.  Y,  1854;  entered  ministry 
Wyoming  conference,  1860;  member  General  confer¬ 
ence,  1884, 1892. 

Austin  Grifiin,  ministerial  delegate  Wyoming  con¬ 
ference,  born  Westford,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  1,1836;  resides 
Binghamton,  N.  Y  ;  corresponding  secretary  of  the 
Preachers’ Aid  society,  Wyoming  conference;  joined 
the  church  East  Worcester,  N.  Y.,  1S58;  entered  min¬ 
istry  One’da  conference  1860;  member  General  con¬ 
ference  1884,  1892. 

William  Nast  Brodbeck,  ministerial  delegate  New 
England  conference;  born  Marietta,  Ohio,  June  25, 
1847;  pastor,  Boston,  Mass.;  joined  the  church 
Pqua,  Ohio,  March  3,  1866;  entered  ministry  Cin¬ 
cinnati  conference  1872;  member  General  conference 
1891. . 

Charles  Raisbeck  Magee,  lay  delegate  New  Eng¬ 


land  conference;  born  New  York  City,  Aug  25,1851; 
resides  Malden,  Mass. ;  agent  Methodist  Book  Con¬ 
cern,  Boston,  Mass.,  joined  the  church  Malden,  1888; 
connected  with  Book  Concern  twenty-six  years. 

H.  Eugene  Waugh,  ministerial  delegate  Northern 
New  York  conference;  born  Scriba,  N.  Y.,  July  11, 
1844;  resides  Utica,  N.  Y. ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
the  church  Scriba,  N  Y.,  October,  1866;  entered 
ministry  Northern  New  York  conference  1871. 

James  Sheriden  Chadwick,  ministerial  delegate 
New  Yoik  East  conference;  born  New  York,  April 
12,1841;  pastor  Sumner-avenue  church,  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church  Paterson,  N  J  ,  1854;  en¬ 
tered  ministry  Rock  River  conference,  1861 ;  member 
General  conference  1876. 

John  French,  lay  delegate  New  York  East  confer¬ 
ence  ;  born  Sussex  county,  near  Lewes,  England ,  No v. 
18,  1814;  resides  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  retired  builder; 
erected  a  number  of  churches  and  largest  public 
buildings  in  Brooklyn;  joined  the  church  Brooklyn, 
September,  1833;  class-leader  fifty-four  years,  trus¬ 
tee  over  fifty  years,  associate  and  superintendent  of 
Sunday-school  Hanson-place  from  its  beginning, 
member  of  Missionary  board  thirty-six  years,  treas¬ 
urer  of  Methodist  Episcopal  hospital  from  its  organ¬ 
ization  ;  alternate  1872  and  1892. 

George  Preston  Mains,  ministerial  delegate  New 
York  East  conference;  born  Newport,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  7, 
1844;  pastor  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y. ;  entered  ministry 
New  York  East  conference,  1870;  member  General 
conference  1888  and  1892, 

John  Humphrey  Sessions,  lay  delegate  New  York 
East  conference;  born  Burlington,  Conn.,  March  17, 
1828;  resides  Bristol,  Conn.;  manufacturing,  hard 
ware,  general  iron  foundry,  president  of  Bristol 
National  Bank,  Bristol  Water  company,  Electric 
Light  company;  joined  the  church  Bristol,  Conn., 
1858;  steward,  trustee. 

Ira  Colby,  lay  delegate  New  Hampshire  conference ; 
born  Claremont,  N.  H.,  Jan.  11,1831:  lawyer  Clare¬ 
mont,  N.  H. ;  joined  the  church  Claremont,  1849; 
trustee. 

Albert  B.  F.  Kinney,  lay  delegate  New  England 
conference;  born  Canada,  Sept.  25,  1S40;  merchant, 
Worcester,  Mass. ;  joined  the  church  Worcester, 
March  14,  1882. 

John  C.  Deininger,  ministerial  delegate  East 
German  conference;  born  Wtirttemberg,  Germany, 
1836;  resides  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  New  York  at  fourteen;  entered 
ministry  New  York  conference,  1855. 

John  Patton,  lay  delegate  Central  Pennsylvania 
conference;  born  Covington,  Pa.,  Jan.  6,  1823; 

banker  Curwensville,  Pa  ;  joined  the  church  Cur- 
wensville,  Pa.,  September,  1839;  steward;  member 
General  conference  1872;  member  Ecumenical  con¬ 
ference  at  Washington  1891. 


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PLATE  XXIV. -1.  E.  R.  Thorndike.  2.  A.  E.  Mahin.  3.  T.  J.  Langston.  4.  J.  C.  Darling.  5.  O.  S.  Baketel.  6. 
A.  I.  Decker.  7.  J.  G.  Eckman.  8.  A.  J.  Van  Cleft.  9.  A.  Griffin.  10.  W.  N.  Brodbeek.  11.  Cbas.  R.  Magee.  12.  H.  E. 
Waugh.  13.  J.  S.  Chadwick.  14.  John  French.  15.  Geo.  P.  Mains.  16.  John  H.  Sessions.  17.  Ira  Colby.  18.  A.  B.  F. 
Kinney.  19.  J.  C.  Deininger.  20.  John  Patton. 

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PLATE  XXV. 


S.  Mortimer  Coon,  lay  delegate  Northern  New  York 
conference;  born  Hastings,  N  Y.,  April  18,  1845; 
lawyer,  Oswego,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church  Eist 
Palermo,  N.  Y.,  1866;  Sunday-school  superintendent, 
trustee,  ex-member  New  York  legislature. 

William  Dixon  Marsh,  ministerial  delegate  North¬ 
ern  New  York  conference;  born  Potsdam,  N.  Y., 
Aug.  2,  1854;  pastor  State-street  church  Watertown, 
N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church  Potsdam,  N.  Y.,  1872;  en¬ 
tered  ministry  Northern  New  York  conference  1883. 

James  H.  Brown,  ministerial  delegate  Troy  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Johnstown,  N.  Y. ;  resides  Round  Lake, 
N.  Y. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  Amsterdam, 
1853;  entered  ministry  Newark  conference,  1859 

Harvey  E.  Dingley,  lay  delegate  Northern  New 
York  conference;  born  Providence,  R.  I,  April  6, 
1848;  wholesale  grocer  Utica,  N.  Y  ;  joined  the 
church  Utica,  N.  Y.,  April,  1880;  trustee,  class- 
leader,  Sunday-school  superintendent. 

Francis  Wesley  Warne,  ministerial  delegate  Ben¬ 
gal  Burmah  conference;  born  Erin,  Ontario,  Canada, 
Dec.  30,  1854;  pastor  of  Dharamtala-street  church, 
Calcutta,  India,  and  presidlng-elder  Calcutta  dis¬ 
trict;  joined  the  church  Erin,  Ontario,  Canada,  1868; 
entered  ministry  Ontario  conference  M.  E.  church, 
Canada,  May,  1874;  general  secretary  of  the  Ep- 
worth  league  for  India  and  Malaysia;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1892;  nine  years  a  missionary  In  In¬ 
dia,  three  years  a  missionary  of  M.  E.  church. 

Silas  Everard  Q  nimby,  ministerial  delegate  New 
Hampshire  conference;  born  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  Oct. 
19,1837;  pastor  Penacook,  N.  H. ;  joined  the  church 
West  Unity  June,  1852;  entered  ministry  Vermont 
conference  1882;  conference  secretary  twenty  years; 
member  General  conference  1880. 

Edward  Franklin  Childs,  lay  delegate  New  Hamp¬ 
shire  conference;  born  Weston,  Mass.,  Oct.  16,  1834; 
manufacturer  Lawrence,  Mass. ;  joined  the  church 
Weston,  Mass.,  1849;  trustee,  steward,  class-leader. 

Charles  Dudley  Hills,  ministerial  delegate  New 
Hampshire  conference;  born  East  Hartford,  Conn.; 
pastor  Haverhill,  Mass. ;  joined  the  church  East 
Hartford,  Conn.,  1855;  entered  ministry  New  England 
conference  1865. 

William  Fairfield  Warren,  ministerial  delegate 
New  England  conference;  born  Williamsburgh,  Mass., 
March  13,  1833;  resides  Cambridge,  Mass.;  president 
Boston  university;  joined  the  church  Middletown, 
Conn.,  1850;  entered  ministry  New  Eigland  confer¬ 
ence,  1853;  member  General  conference  1872, 1876, 1S80, 
1884,  1892. 

John  William  Hamilton,  ministerial  delegate  New 
England  conference;  born  Weston,  Va.,  March  18, 
1845;  resides  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  corresponding  secre¬ 
tary  Freedmen’s  Aid  and  Southern  Education  so¬ 
ciety;  joined  the  church  St.  Clairsville,  Onio,  Febru¬ 
ary,  1S54;  entered  ministry  Pittsburg  conference, 


1866;  transferred  to  New  England  1868;  member 
General  conference  1884,  1888,  1892. 

Homer  Eaton,  ministerial  delegate  Troy  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Enosburg,  Vt.,  Nov.  16,1836;  publishing 
agent  Methodist  Book  Concern,  New  York-  oined 
the  church  Enosburg,  1850;  entered  ministry 
Troy  conference  1857;  member  General  conference, 
1872,  1880,  1884,  1888,  1892. 

James  E.  C.  Sawyer,  ministerial  delegate  Troy 
conference;  born  Boston,  Mass  ,  Aug.  12,  1842;  edi¬ 
tor  Northern  Christian  Advocate ,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. ; 
joined  the  church  Belfast,  Maine,  July,  1862;  entered 
ministry  East  Maine  conference  1863;  member  Gen¬ 
eral  conference  1884;  member  Centennial  conference, 
Baltimore,  1884 

Moses  Parmelee  Perley,  lay  delegate  Vermont  con¬ 
ference;  born  at  Enosburg,  Vt.,  June  25,  1844;  mer¬ 
chant  and  medicine  manufacturer,  Enosburg  Falls, 
Vt. ;  joined  the  church  Sheldon,  Vt.,  1871;  steward; 
reserve  1892. 

Joel  O.  Sherburn,  ministerial  delegate  Vermont 
conference;  born  Plainfield,  Vt.,  Nov.  21,  1845;  pas¬ 
tor  Williamstown,  near  Brookfield;  joined  the 
church  Plainfield,  Oct ,  1863;  entered  ministry  Ver 
mont  conference,  1874;  member  General  conference 
1892 

Zophar  M.  Mansur,  lay  delegate  Vermont  confer-- 
ence;  born  Morgan,  Vt.,  1846;  lawyer  Island  Pond, 
Vt. ;  lieutenant-governor;  joined  the  church  Island 
Pond,  1876;  steward. 

Alfred  J.  Hough,  ministerial  delegate  Vermont 
conference;  born  Hampshire,  England,  Sept.  23, 1S48; 
pastor  Brattleboro,  Vt. ;  entered  ministry  Vermont 
conference,  1875 

Justo  Cubilo,  lay  delegate  South  America  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Montevideo,  Uruguay,  1865;  graduate 
Montevidean  university;  lawyer;  local  preacher; 
Sunday-school  superintendent. 

William  Haven  Daniels,  lay  delegate  Northwest 
India  conference;  born  in  Franklin,  Mass  ,  May  18, 
1836;  joined  church  Worcester,  Mass.,  1849;  entered 
ministry  Rock  River  conference,  1869;  pastor 
Clark -street  church,  Chicago,  at  time  of  great 
fire;  transferred  New  England  conference,  1883; 
located  1S85;  author  “Illustrated  History  of  Meth¬ 
odism,”  etc. ;  missionary  evangelist  in  India  and  Ja¬ 
pan  ;  lay  delegate  North  India  to  General  conference 
1892;  member  of  Cawnpore  Methodist  church,  India. 

Charles  William  Drees,  ministerial  delegate  South 
America  conference;  born  Xenia,  Ohio,  Sept.  13, 
1851;  superintendent  South  America  mission;  re¬ 
sides  Buenos  Ayres,  Argentina;  joined  the  church 
Xenia,  0,1862;  entered  ministry  Providence  (now 
New  England  Southern)  conference  1874;  missionary 
to  Mexico  1874  to  1886;  superintendent  from  1879. 

Robert  Felix  Broadus,  lay  delegate  Lexington  con¬ 
ference;  born  of  slave  parents  in  Madison,  Ky.,  Aug. 
10, 1861;  resides  Cleveland,  Ky. ;  local  preacher. 


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PLATE  XXV.— 1  S.  M.  Coon.  2.  W.  D.  Marsh.  3  J.  H.  Brown.  4.  H.  E.  Dingley.  5.  F.  W.  Warne  6  S.  E. 
Quimby.  7.  E.  F.  Childs.  8.  C.  D.  Hills.  9.  W  F.  Warren.  10.  J.  W.  Hamilton.  11.  Homer  Eaton  12.  J.  E.  C.  Saw¬ 
yer.  13  M.  P.  Perley.  14,  J.  O.  Sherburn.  15  Z.  M.  Mansur  16  A.  J.  Hough.  17.  Justo  Cubilo.  18.  W.  H.  Daniels. 
19.  Charles  W.  Drees.  20.  R  F.  Broadus 


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PLATE  XXVI 


George  A.  Barrett,  ministerial  delegate  Troy  con¬ 
ference;  born  Fairfax,  Vt. ;  resides  Plattsburg, 
N.  Y. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the  church  Johnson, 
Vt  ,  1871;  entered  ministry  Troy  conference,  1876; 
member  General  conference,  1892. 

Crandall  J.  North,  ministerial  delegate  New  York 
East  conference;  born  Elbridge,  N.  Y.,  March  2, 1S47 ; 
resides  New  Haven,  Conn;  presiding-elder ;  con¬ 
verted  in  the  army,  almost  on  the  present  site  of  the 
American  university;  joined  the  church  Auburn, 
N.  Y.,  August,  1865 ;  entered  ministry  New  York  East 
conference  1877;  member  board  of  control  Epworth 
league  1890  92. 

John  D.  McCully,  lay  delegate  Idaho  conference; 
born  Harrisburg,  Ore.,  Feb.  2,  1846;  merchant,  Jo¬ 
seph,  Ore.;  joined  the  church  Salem,  Ore.,  1870; 
trustee,  steward. 

James  L.  Fowler,  ministerial  delegate  Georgia  con¬ 
ference;  born  DeKaib  county,  Ga,,  Dec.  20,  1836;  re¬ 
sides  Lawrenceville,  Ga. ;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  DeKaib  county,  Ga.,  1853;  entered  ministry 
1860. 

William  J.  Gibson,  lay  delegate  Missouri  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Hendricks  county,  Ind.,  Feb.  14,  1843; 
lawyer,  Grant  City,  Mo. ;  joined  the  church  La  Fay¬ 
ette,  Ind.,  1866;  trustee,  teacher  Bible -class  for 
thirty  years ;  delegate  to  World’s  Sunday-school  con¬ 
vention. 

George  Slocum  Bennett,  lay  delegate  Wyoming 
conference;  born  at  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  Aug.  17,  1842; 
banker,  Wilkesbarre;  joined  the  church  Wilkesbarre, 
1856;  trustee,  superintendent  Sunday-school. 

Henry  Spsllmeyer,  ministerial  delegate  Newark 
conference;  born  New  York  city,  November  25,  1847; 
pastor  Central  church,  Newark,  N.  J. ;  joined  the 
church  West  Farms,  New  York  city,  1859;  entered 
the  ministry  Newark  conference,  1869. 

James  E.  Hair,  lay  delegate  South  Kansas  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Five  Mile,  Ohio,  Sept.  27,  1861;  cashier 
bank,  Baldwin,  Kan. ;  joined  the  church  Baldwin, 
1889;  Sunday  school  superintendent. 

James  H.  Scott,  ministerial  delegate  Delaware  con¬ 
ference;  born  Baltimore,  Md  ,  Oct.  21,  1860;  pastor, 
Newark,  N.  J. ;  joined  the  church  Port  Deposit,  Md., 
1884;  entered  ministry  Delaware  conference,  1886. 

Edward  M.  Taylor,  ministerial  delegate  New  Eng¬ 
land  conference;  born  Washington,  Pa.,  Feb.  25, 
1852;  pastor  Winthrop-street  church  Boston,  Mass. ; 
joined  the  church  Washington,  Pa.,  1870;  entered 
ministry,  Pittsburg,  1874;  president  first  general  dis¬ 
trict  Epworth  league. 


David  Charles  Plannette,  ministerial  delegate 
North  Dakota  conference;  born  Allegheny  City,  Pa  , 
Dec.  15,  1850;  resides  Fargo,  N.  D. ;  presiding-elder; 
joined  the  church  Allegheny  City,  1867;  entered  min¬ 
istry  Erie  conference  1872;  member  General  confer¬ 
ence  1888. 

David  F.  Pierce,  ministerial  delegate  Northern 
New  York  conference;  born  Osurgatchie,  N.  Y., 
April  26, 1847;  pastor  Rome,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church 
Norfolk,  N.  Y.,  June,  1867;  entered  ministry  North¬ 
ern  New  York  conference  1876;  member  General  con¬ 
ference  1892. 

William  H.  Hughes,  ministerial  delegate  Troy  con¬ 
ference;  born  Albany,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  11,  1839;  pastor 
Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the  church  Green- 
bush  1856;  entered  ministry  1863;  member  General 
conference  1880, 1892. 

Rev.  S.  Van  Benschoten,  ministerial  delegate  New¬ 
ark  conference;  born  May  28, 1832,  Dutchess  county, 
N.  Y  ;  entered  ministry  East  Genesee  conference, 
1858;  presiding-elder;  member  General  conference 

1888. 

Charles  S.  Wing,  ministerial  delegate  New  York 
East  conference;  born  Goshen,  Conn.,  Jan.  18,  1845; 
resides  Brooklyn,  N.  Y;  presiding-elder;  joined  the 
church  Goshen,  1855;  entered  ministry  New  York 
Eist  conference,  1867;  member  General  conference 
1892. 

William  W.  Merrill,  lay  delegate  Maine  conference ; 
born  .at  Westbrook,  Me.,  (now  Deering),  June  10, 
1849 ;  resides  Deering,  Me. ;  joined  the  church  Port¬ 
land,  1883;  steward,  superintendent  Sunday-school. 

Stanford  L.  Parker,  lay  delegate  Delaware  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Delmar,  Del.;  merchant  Laurel,  Del.; 
joined  church  1882;  steward,  superintendent,  trustee. 

George  Dickson  Lindsay,  ministerial  delegate 
Maine  conference;  born  County  Armagh,  Ireland, 
May  9,  1845;  pastor  Congress-streetchurch,  Portland 
Maine;  joined  the  church  Ireland  1869;  entered  min¬ 
istry  Maine  conference  1875;  at  head  of  Chautauqua 
work  in  Maine  for  -ten  years;  president  and  superin¬ 
tendent  of  instruction  Northern  New  England  as¬ 
sembly. 

William  H.  Miles,  lay  delegate  Maine  conference; 
born  Limerick,  Maine,  Dec.  2,  1836;  cotton  manu¬ 
facturer,  Lisbon,  Maine;  joined  the  church  Bidde- 
ford,  1855;  trustee,  steward,  class-leader. 

Wm.  H.  Murphy,  lay  delegate  Newark  conference; 
born  Newark,  N.  J.,  April  15,  1821;  retired  manufac¬ 
turer,  Newark ;  joined  the  church  Jerspy  City  1841; 
trustee ;  member  General  conference  1892. 


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PLATE  XXVI.—  1  Geo  A.  Barrett.  2.  C.  J.  North.  3.  John  D.  McCully.  4.  J.  L.  Fowler.  5.  Wm.  J.  Gibson, 
6.  Geo.  S.  Bennett.  7.  Henry  Spellmeyer.  8.  J.  E.  Hair.  9.  J.  H.  Scott.  10.  Edward  M.  Taylor.  11.  D.  C.  Plannette. 
12.  D.  F.  Pierce.  13,  W.  H.  Hughes.  14,  S.  Van  Benschoten,  15.  Charles  S.  Wing.  16.  Wm.  M.  Merrill.  17.  S.  L. 
Parker.  18,  G.  D.  Lindsay.  19,  V/.  H,  Miles.  20.  Wm.  H.  Murphy. 


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PLATE  XXVII 


Bonjamln  O  Bird,  lay  delegate  Delaware  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Lovettsville,  Va.,  Aug.  11,  1853;  teacher 
Princess  Anne,  Md. ;  joined  the  church  Gettysburg, 
Pa.,  September,  1879;  trustee;  member  General  con¬ 
ference  1888. 

G.  J.  Starnes,  M.D.,  lay  delegate  West  Texas  con¬ 
ference;  born  Williamson  county, Tenn.,  June 22,  1854; 
graduated  from  Meharry  Medical  college,  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  1884;  surgeon-in-chief  “the college  Infirmary,” 
San  Antonio,  Texas. 

J.  Frank  Haley,  ministerial  delegate  East  Maine 
conference;  born  Kennebunk,  Maine,  July  26,  1851; 
pastor  Dexter,  Maine;  joined  the  church  Kennebunk, 
1866;  entered  ministry  East  Maine  conference,  1879. 

John  Donald  Wallace,  lay  delegate  North  Dakota 
conference;  born  Guelph,  Ontario,  Canada,  Feb.  24, 
1845;  farmer,  Drayton,  North  Dakota;  joined  the 
church  1S56. 

William  L.  Brown,  ministerial  delegate  East  Maine 
conference;  born  Union,  Maine,  Oct.  11,  1835;  pastor 
Newport,  Me.;  joined  the  church  1852;  united  with 
East  Maine  conference  of  1858. 

Abram  W.  Harris,  lay  delegate  East  Maine  confer¬ 
ence;  born  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  Nov.  7,  1858;  president 
Maine  State  college,  Orono,  Maine ;  joined  the  church 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  1872;  trustee,  steward. 

Wilbur  F.  Berry,  ministerial  delegate  Maine  con¬ 
ference;  born  Camden,  Maine,  Nov.  24, 1851;  pastor 
Waterville,  Maine;  joined  the  church  BaDgor,  1873; 
entered  ministry  Maine  conference,  1S79;  member 
General  conference,  1892. 

Albert  Hamilton  Baker,  ministerial  delegate  South 
India  conference;  born  Portland,  Maine,  April  26, 
1856;  presiding-elder  Madras  district,  India;  address, 
Newton,  Mass.;  joined  the  church  Ashland,  Mass., 
1871;  entered  ministry  South  India  conference  1881. 


Daniel  Hays,  lay  delegate  Troy  conference;  born 
Gloversvllle,  N.  Y.,  June  14,  1833;  manufacturer, 
Gloversville,  N.  Y  ;  joined  the  church  Gloversvllle, 
N.  Y.,  October,  1855;  trustee. 

Jas.  H.  Diggs,  lay  delegate  Central  Missouri  con¬ 
ference;  born  Howard  county,  Mo.,  July  8, 1855;  por¬ 
ter  In  bank,  Fayette,  Mo. ;  joined  the  church  Fayette, 
Mo  ,  in  1872;  steward,  trustee,  and  class-leader. 

Richard  S.  Tennant,  lay  delegate  Northwest  Indi¬ 
ana  conference;  born  Putnam  county,  Ind.,  May, 
1844;  lawyer,  Terre  Haute,  Ind. ;  eminent  as  Sunday- 
school  superintendent. 

John  Fred  Hall,  lay  delegate  East  Maine  confer¬ 
ence,  born  Rockland,  Maine,  Sept.  21,1840;  carriage 
manufacturer  Rockland,  Maine;  joined  the  church 
Rockland,  1877;  trustee. 

Charles  Wesley  Winchester,  reserve  ministerial 
delegate  Genesee  conference,  in  place  of  Sanford 
Hunt,  deceased;  born  Westminster,  Vt.,July  2,  1843; 
resides  Corning,  N.  Y  ;  presiding-elder;  joined 
church  Claremont,  N.  H.,  at  fourteen;  entered 
ministry  East  Genesee  conference  1870;  member 
Ecumenical  conference  1891. 

Charles  Darius  Hammond,  lay  delegate  Troy  con¬ 
ference;  born  Rushford,  N.  Y.,  March  1,1844;  rail¬ 
road  superintendent  Slingerland,  N.  Y. ;  joined  the 
church  Susquehanna,  Pa.,  1867;  Sunday-school 
superintendent;  member  General  conference  1884, 
1888,  1892. 

John  Hamline  Coleman,  ministerial  .delegate  Troy 
conference;  born  Northampton,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  30,  1847; 
resides  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  presiding-elder ;  joined  the 
church  Northampton  1860;  entered  ministry  Troy 
conference  1873;  member  General  conference  1888 
and  1892. 


From  Northwestern  Christian  Advocate,  April  2g,  iSgs. 

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PLATE  XXVII.— 1.  Benj  O.  Bird.  2  G.  J.  Starnes.  3.  J.  F,  Haley.  4.  J.  D,  Wallace.  5.  W.  L.  Brown.  6.  A.  W. 
Harris.  7  W.  F.  Berry.  8.  A.  H.  Baker.  9.  Daniel  Hays.  10.  J.  H  Diggs.  11.  R.  S.  Tennant.  12.  J.  F.  Hall.  13. 
C  W.  Winchester.  14.  C.  D.  Hammond.  15.  J.  H.  Coleman. 

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II.  DELEGATES-ELECT  BY  CONFERENCES 


Alabama. — Cl:  ieal:  GeorgeE.  Ackerman  Chat- 
tanooga.  Term.  La}  :  Adapts  H.  Gibbs.  We- 
dowee. 

Arkansas. — Clerical:  A.  T.  Taylor  Rogers.  Lay: 

J.  H.  Clennening.  Fort  Smith. 

Austin. — Clerical :  Oscar  L.  Fisher.  Fort  Wor.h. 
La}  :  E  -nezer  B.  Ailing.  San  Antonio. 

Baltimore. — CL  ■  ical :  John  LanaTmn.  Baltimore  : 
John  F.  Goncher.  Baltimore :  Luther  B.  Wil¬ 
son.  Washington  D.  C.:  William  S  Edwards. 
Baltimore.  La}  :  William  A.  Leitch.  Balti¬ 
more  :  Ales.  Ashley.  Washington.  D.  C. 
BengaPBurmah. — Clerical:  F.  W.  Wame  Cal¬ 
cutta.  India.  Lay:  C.J.  A. Pritchard.  Calcutta. 
India 

Blue  Ridge. — Cleric.:  l .  Adolphns  Gray  heal.  Mon¬ 
tezuma  Lav:  Henry  F.  Ketron.  Chuckey 
City.  Tenn. 

Bombay  . —  Clerical  D.  O.  Fox.  Poona  Lay 
fames  Morris  no  P.  O.  given  . 

California. — Clerical :  Arnold  T.  Needham.  Oak¬ 
land:  Milton  D.  Buck.  Sacramento:  Elbridge 
R.  W  illis.  Napa:  John  Coyle  San  Francisco; 
John  Kirby.  Alameda  Lay  :  Tames  W.  Whit¬ 
ing  San  Francisco  Henry  French  San  Jose. 
California  German.  —  Clerical:  George  Guth. 
San  Francisco.  Lay  :  John  Furrer.  Los  An¬ 
geles. 

Central  Alabama. — Clerical :  Edward  M.  Jone~. 
Montgomery.  Lay:  Philip  P.  Wright.  Ro¬ 
anoke. 

Central  German. — Clerical:  Albert  J.  Nast.  Cin¬ 
cinnati:  Jacob  Rottweiler.  New  Albany.  Ind.; 
Joseph  Kern,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  Lay: 
Jacob  Haenssler.  Cincinnati:  Victor  Wilker. 
Berea.  O. 

Central  Illinois. — Clerical :  Hyre  D.  Clark  Gales- 
bnrg:  Jervice  D.  Evans.  Abingdon:  Samuel 
Van  Pelt.  Onarga:  James  W.  Haney.  Normal : 
Marion  V.  Cram  baker.  Rock  Island.  Lay: 
Charles  H.  Long.  Pontiac  :  William  H.  Logan. 
Seaton. 

Central  .Missouri. — Cleri  al James  W.  Jackson, 
St  Louis  :  Richard  E.  Gillum.  Topeka.  Lay  : 
H.  L.  Billups.  Sedalia;  James  H.  Diggs. 
Fayette. 

Central  New  Y  ork. — Clerical .-  Carlton C-Wilbor. 
Elmira  :  John  C.  Nicholls.  Syracuse  :  Edmund 
M.  31  ills  Elmira ;  R.  DeWitt  Munger.  Auburn : 


Theron  R.  Green.  Syracuse.  La}  :  Francis  J. 
Cheney.  Cortland  ;  Edwin  Nottingham.  Syra¬ 
cuse. 

Central  Ohio.  —  Clerical :  Elias  D.  Whitlock. 

Belief ontaine :  Josiah  L.  Albritton.  Toledo: 
Leroy  A.  Belt  Kenton:  Wesley  G.  Waters. 
Fremont  Lay:  Edwin  T.  Nelson.  Delaware ; 
Frank  H.  Tanner.  Toledo. 

Central  Pennsylvania. — Clerical:  William  W. 

Evans.  Harrisburg:  Edward  J.  Gray.  Will¬ 
iamsport:  Silas  C.  Swallow.  Harrisburg: 

David  S.  Monroe.  Altoona;  Ezra  H.  Yocum. 
Sunburv ;  William  M.  Frysinger.  Carlisle. 
La}  :  Thomas  H.  Murray.  Clearfield ;  John 
Patton.  Curwensville. 

Central  Swedish. — Clerical:  James  T.  Wigrer 
Galva.  Ill.  Lay :  John  R.  Lindgren.  Evans¬ 
ton.  Ill. 

Central  Tennessee. — Clerical:  Joseph  M.  Carter. 
Huntingdon.  Lay :  Phylazo  D.  Carr.  Nash¬ 
ville. 

Chicago  German. — Bartholomew  Lampert  Chi¬ 
cago  ;  Henry  Lemcke.  Watertown.  Wis.  Lay  : 
Charles  E.  Mueller.  Milwaukee.  Wis. ;  Emil 
Karpowsky.  Chicago.  Ill. 

Cincinnati. — Clerical :  Adna  B.  Leonard,  New 

York:  Charles  H.  Payne.  New  York:  James 
W.  Bashford.  Delaware ;  Frank  G.  Mitchell. 
Piqua;  Henry  C.  Weakley.  Cincinnati.  Lay : 
George  B.  Johnson.  Cincinnati  ;  Charles  W. 

Bennett  Piqua. 

Colorado. — Clerical:  Earl  Cranston.  Cincinnati; 
Daniel  L.  Rader.  Pneblo.  Lay  :  Zechariah  X. 
Snyder  Greeley ;  Joseph  W.  Giliuly.  Denver. 

Columbia  River. — Clerical :  George  M.  Booth. 
Spokane ;  Wilmot  W.  Van  Dusen.  Spokane. 
Lay :  Isaac  C.  Libby,  Spokane ;  Herbert  C. 
Clark.  Brinkleton. 

Delaware. — Clerical :  Henry  A.  Monroe,  Phila¬ 
delphia.  Pa. :  Tames  H.  Scott,  Newark.  X.  J. 
Lay  :  Benjamin  O.  Bird.  Princess  Anne.  Md. ; 
Stanford  L.  Parker.  Laurel.  DeL 

Des  .Moines.  —  Clerical :  Emory  Miller,  De~ 
Moines  :  William  H.  W.  Rees.  Cincinnati.  O. ; 
William  E.  Hamilton.  Indianola;  DeWitt  C. 
Franklin.  Atlantic ;  William T.  Smith.  Creston. 
Lay  :  James  M.  Kittleman,  Indianola;  Leslie 
M.  Shaw.  Dennison. 

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Detroit. — Clerical :  Joseph  F.  Berry,  Chicago,  Ill. ;  (®) 
Camden  M.  Cobern,  Ann  Arbor;  William  H.  j 
Shier,  Detroit;  John  Sweet,  Calumet;  Charles 
T.  Allen,  Detroit;  Edward  W.  Ryan,  Ypsilanti ; 
Lewis  R.  Fiske,  Albion.  Lay:  George  O. 
Robinson,  Detroit ;  Dr.  Roy  S.  Copeland,  Ann 
Arbor. 

East  German.  —  Clerical:  John  C.  Deininger, 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  Lay :  Charles  E.  Zoller, 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 

East  Maine. — Clerical:  J.  F.  Haley,  Dexter. 
W.  L.  Brown,  Newport.  Lay :  A.  W.  Harris, 

J.  F.  Hall. 

East  Ohio. — Clerical :  Darius  H.  Muller,  Cleve¬ 
land  ;  Lemuel  H.  Stewart,  Steubenville  ;  Earl 
D.  Holtz,  Alliance;  Eugene  P.  Edmonds, 
Canton  ;  John  I.  Wilson,  Cambridge  ;  David  C. 
Osborne,  Barnesville.  Lay:  John  A.  Mans¬ 
field,  Steubenville;  Warren  F.  Walworth, 
Cleveland. 

East  Tennessee.  —  Clerical :  Judson  S.  Hill, 
Morristown.  Lay:  James  R.  Johnson,  Pu¬ 
laski,  Va. 

Erie. — Clerical :  Jasou  N.  Fradenburgh,  Green¬ 
ville;  Silas  H.  Prather,  Meadville ;  Andrew  J. 
Merchant,  Punxsutawney ;  John  C.  Schofield, 
New  Castle;  Robert  S.  Borland,  Forrestville, 
N.  Y.  Lay:  Harvey  J.  Gidley,  Dunkirk,  N.  Y. ; 
Henry  P.  Sullivan,  Erie. 

Florida. — Clerical :  Stephen  A.  Huger,  Jackson¬ 
ville.  Lay  :  Robert  Ayers,  Gainesville. 

Foochow . — Clerical :  Myron  C.  Wilcox,  Foochow. 
Lay :  Lydia  A.  Trimble,  Foochow. 

Genesee. — Clerical :  C.  W.  Winchester  (in  place 
of  Sandford  Hunt,  deceased),  Corning,  New 
York;  John  E.  Williams,  Buffalo;  James  E. 
Bills,  Rochester  ;  S.  A.  Abishai  Morse,  Buffalo  ; 
Henry  C.  Woods,  Corning ;  Ebenezer  H.  Lat¬ 
imer,  Olean.  Lay  :  John  L.  Romer,  Buffalo  ; 
Alexander  M.  Holden,  Honeyoye  Falls. 
Georgia. —  Clerical :  James  L.  Fowler,  Lawrence- 
ville.  Lay  :  William  T.  Morris,  Mt.  Zion. 

Holston. — Clerical:  Richard  J.  Cooke,  Chatta¬ 
nooga;  James  A.  Ruble,  Maryville.  Lay : 
John  W.  Adams,  Chattanooga;  James  A. 
Fowler,  Clinton. 

Idaho. — Clerical :  Charles  R.  Kellerman,  Boise 
City.  Lay :  John  D.  McCulley,  Enterprise. 

Illinois. — Clerical :  William  N.  McElroy,  Spring- 
field;  William  H.  Wilder,  Bloomington; 
Christopher  Galeener,  Decatur ;  John  T. 
McFarland,  Jacksonville  ;  John  A.  Kumler, 
Springfield;  John  B.  Wolfe,  Bloomington; 
Horace  Reed,  Jacksonville.  Lay :  Joseph  O. 
Cunningham,  Urbana ;  Herbert  G.  Whitlock, 
Jacksonville. 


Indiana. — Clerical :  William  R.  Halstead,  Evans¬ 
ville;  Henry  J.  Talbott,  Indianapolis;  John 
H.  Martin,  Moores  Hill ;  Merrimon  S.  Heaven- 
ridge,  Vincennes;  Tilghman  H.  Willis,  Bloom¬ 
ington;  Henry  A.  Buchtel,  Indianapolis; 
Janies  A.  Sargent,  Indianapolis.  Lay :  Ben¬ 
jamin  F.  Adams,  Bloomington  ;  William  New¬ 
kirk,  Counersville. 

Iowa. — Clerical :  Charles  L.  Stafford,  Mt.  Pleas¬ 
ant;  Thomas  J.  Myers,  Mt.  Pleasant;  Morris 
Bamford,  Oskaloosa;  Isaac  P.  Teter,  Ottumwa. 
Lay :  Chris.  Haw,  Ottumwa;  James  Harland, 
Mt.  Pleasant. 

Italy. — Clerical:  William  Burt,  Rome.  Lay  : 
Luigi  Mando,  Rome. 

Japan. —  Clerical :  Yoitsu  Honda,  Tokyo.  Lay  : 
Taro  Ando,  Tokyo. 

Kansas. — Clerical :  Aleric  S.  Embree,  Topeka  ; 
John  A.  Motter,  Baldwin ;  William  H.  Under¬ 
wood,  Clay  Center.  Lay :  James  M.  Miller, 
Council  Grove;  William  P.  Fryhoffer,  Ran¬ 
dolph. 

Kentucky. — Clerical :  Daniel  Stevenson,  Barbour- 
ville ;  John  D.  Walsh,  Lexington.  Lay :  Rob¬ 
ert  T.  Miller,  Covington;  Vincent  Boreing, 
London. 

Lexington.  —  Clerical :  Edward  W.  S.  Hammond, 
New  Orleans,  La.  ;  Joseph  Courtney,  Lexing¬ 
ton,  Ky.  Lay:  R.  F.  Broaddus  (no  P.  O. 
given)  ;  Isaac  N.  McCullough  (no  P.  O.  given). 
(Secretary  failed  to  send  post-offices.) 

Liberia. — Clerical :  James  H.  Deputie  (deceased) . 
Lay :  Ashford  L.  Sims,  Monrovia. 

Little  Rock.— Clerical :  William  O.  Emory,  Little 
Rock.  Lay :  James  M.  Cox,  Little  Rock. 

Louisiana. — Clerical:  Joseph  C.  Hartzell,  Cin¬ 
cinnati,  O. ;  Aristides  E.  P.  Albert,  New  Or¬ 
leans  ;  Julian  F.  Marshall,  New  Orleans.  Lay : 
Charles  C.  Morse,  New  Orleans;  George  F. 
Huntley,  .Shreveport. 

Maine. — Clerical :  G.  D.  Lindsay,  Portland;  W.  F. 
Berry,  Waterville.  Lay:  W.  W.  Merrill, 
Woodsford ;  W.  H.  Miles,  Lisbon. 

Mexico.  —  Clerical:  John  W.  Butler,  Mexico. 

Lay  :  Christobal  Ludlow,  Pachuca. 

Michigan.  —  Clerical:  Amos  M.  Gould,  Cold- 
water  ;  James  H.  Potts,  Detroit ;  James  I. 
Buell,  Iona;  Patrick  J.  Maveety,  Jackson; 
Levi  Master,  Kalamazoo ;  Marshall  M.  Calleu, 
Hillsdale ;  James  Hamilton,  Grand  Rapids. 
Lay  :  Samuel  Dickie,  Albion  ;  Elvin  Swarth- 
out,  Grand  Rapids. 

Minnesota. — Clerical :  Henry  C.  Jennings,  Man¬ 
kato;  George  H.  Bridgman,  St.  Paul;  John 
Stafford,  Mankato.  Lay :  Hascal  R.  Brill,  St. 
(4  Paul ;  Galen  A.  Merrill,  Owatonua. 


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Mississippi.  —  Clerical:  James  M.  Shumpert,  ®) 
Columbus ;  Samuel  A.  Cowan,  Vicksburg. 
Lay :  George  W.  Stith,  Vicksburg;  Thomas  I. 
Keys,  Ocean  Springs. 

Missouri — Clerical:  John  H.  Poland,  Kirks- 
ville;  Isaac  Ware,  St.  Joseph  ;  James  J.  Bent¬ 
ley,  Maryville.  Lay:  Charles  D.  Morris, 
Trenton;  Wm.  J.  Gibson,  Grant  City. 

Montana. — Clerical :  Jacob  Mills,  Bozeman.  Lay : 

Frederick  Gamer,  Helena. 

Nebraska. — Clerical :  Charles  C.  Lasby,  Lincoln  ; 
DeWitt  C.  Huntington,  Lincoln  ;  Isaac  Crook, 
University  Place.  Lay:  John  H.  Mickey, 
Osceola;  Lucius  O.  Jones,  Lincoln. 

Newark. — Clerical :  Henry  A.  Buttz,  Madison  ; 
Sandford  Van  Benscoten,  Passaic  ;  Stephen  L. 
Baldwin,  New  York  City;  Henry  Spellmeyer, 
Newark  ;  George  W.  Smith,  Elizabeth.  Lay  : 
William  H.  Murphy,  Newark ;  Robert  R. 
Doherty,  New  York  City. 

New  England.  —  Clerical :  J.  W.  Hamilton,  Cin¬ 
cinnati,  O. ;  S.  F.  Upham,  Madison,  N.  J.; 

E.  R.  Thorndike,  Springfield ;  W.  N.  Brod- 
beck,  Boston  ;  E.  M.  Taylor,  Boston  ;  W.  F. 
Warren,  Boston.  Lay :  C.  R.  McGee,  Boston; 

A.  B.  Kinney,  Worcester. 

New  England  Southern. — Clerical:  S.  O.  Ben¬ 
ton,  Fall  River,  Mass. ;  G.  H.  Bates,  Norwich, 
Conn.  ;  T.  J.  Everett,  New  Bedford,  Mass. ; 

M.  J.  Talbot,  Providence,  R.  I.  Lay:  David 
Gordon,  Hazardville,  Conn.  ;  Joseph  E.  C. 
Farnham,  Providence,  R.  I. 

New  Hampshire. — Clerical:  Silas  E.  Quimby, 
Penacook,  N.  H. ;  Charles  D.  Hills,  Haverhill, 
Mass. ;  Oliver  S.  Baketel,  Manchester.  Lay : 
Ira  Colby,  Claremont ;  Edward  F.  Childs, 
Lawrence,  Mass. 

New  Jersey. — Clerical:  Jacob B.  Graw,  Trenton; 
James  R.  Mace,  Camden ;  George  B.  Wight, 
Millville  ;  Joseph  L.  Roe,  Bridgeton  ;  George 
Reed,  Island  Heights.  Lay :  Clement  W. 
Shoemaker,  Bridgeton;  James  F.  Rusling, 
Trenton. 

New  York  .—Clerical :  J.  R.  Day,  Syracuse ; 

C.  C.  McCabe,  New  York  ;  E.  S.  Osbon,  New 
York;  J.  M.  King,  New  York;  A.  J.  Palmer, 
New  York;  Andrew  Schriver,  Newburg.  Lay: 

J.  E.  Andrus,  Yonkers  ;  A.  D.  Peake,  Walden. 

New  York  East. — Clerical :  James  M.  Buckley, 
New  York;  William  V.  Kelley,  New  York; 
George  P.  Mains,  Mount  Vernon;  George  E. 
Reed,  Carlisle,  Pa.;  Charles  S.  Wing,  Brook¬ 
lyn;  James  S.  Chadwick,  Brooklyn;  Crandall 
J.  North,  New  Haven,  Conn.  Lay :  John  H. 
Sessions,  Bristol,  Con.  ;  John  French,  Brook¬ 
lyn. 

North  Carolina.  —  Clerical :  Elias  M.  Collett, 
Charlotte.  Lay :  Wade  H.  Thomas,  Hamlet.  @ 


North  China. — Clerical :  Hiram  H.  Lowery,  Pe¬ 
king,  China.  Lay :  Julian  F.  Scott,  Pasa¬ 
dena,  Cal. 

North  Dakota. — Clerical :  D.  C.  Plannette,  Fargo. 
Lay :  J.  D.  Wallace. 

Northern  German. — Clerical :  Franz  L.  Nagler, 
Cincinnati.  Lay :  Henry  Bendixen,  Spring- 
field,  Minn. 

North  Germany. — Clerical :  Carl  Schell,  Berlin. 
Lay  :  Peter  Rasmusen,  Oldenburg. 

North  India. — Clerical :  Edwin  W.  Parker,  Luck¬ 
now  ;  Thomas  J.  Scott,  Delaware,  O.  Lay : 
Lois  S.  Parker,  Lucknow  ;  Ada  C.  Butcher, 
Bareilly,  India. 

North  Indiana. — Clerical:  Horace  N.  Herrick, 
Muncie;  Frank  G.  Browne,  Huntingdon; 
Augustus  E.  Mahin,  Richmond  ;  William  D. 
Parr,  Muncie.  Lay:  John  S.  Patterson, 
Knightstown;  Christian  B.  Stemen,  Ft.  Wayne. 
North  Nebraska.  —  Clerical:  Alfred  Hodgetts, 
Norfolk;  John  B.  Maxfield,  Omaha.  Lay: 
John  D.  King,  Wayne  ;  Trevanyon  L.  Mathews, 
Fremont. 

North  Ohio. — Clerical:  Newell  S.  Albright,  Bu- 
cyrus ;  William  Kepler,  New  London;  Will¬ 
iam  F.  Whitlock,  Delaware;  John  Mitchell, 
Cleveland.  Lay  :  Lewis  C.  Laylin,  Norwalk  ; 
John  M.  Naylor,  Tiffin. 

Northern  Minnesota.  —  Clerical :  Robert  Forbes, 
Duluth ;  James  F.  Chaffee,  Minneapolis ;  Joseph 
B.  Hingeley, Minneapolis.  Lay:  LeonidasMer- 
ritt,  Duluth  ;  Jacob  F.  Force,  Minneapolis. 
Northern  New  York  .—Clerical :  H.  E.  Waugh, 
Utica  ;  W.  D.  Marsh,  Watertown  ;  D.  F.  Pierce, 
Rome  ;  C.  J.  Little,  Evanston,  Ill.  ;  J.  C.  Dar¬ 
ling,  Potsdam.  Lay:  S.  M.  Coon,  Oswego; 
H.  F.  Dingley,  Utica. 

Northwest  India. — Clerical:  Jefferson  E.  Scott, 
Muttra.  Lay:  W.  H.  Daniels,  Cawnpore,  India. 
Northwest  Kansas.  —  Clerical :  William  H. 
Sweet,  Salina ;  Edward  W.  Allen,  Concordia. 
Lay:  Edworth  S.  Chenoweth,  McCracken; 
John  B.  Morrison,  Colby. 

Northwest  German.  —  Clerical:  Edward  W. 
Henke,  Storm  Lake,  la.  Lay:  Henry  A. 
Salzer,  LaCrosse,  Wis. 

Northwest  Indiana. — Clerical :  William  H.  Hick¬ 
man,  Terre  Haute;  Hilary  H.  Gobin,  Green- 
castle  ;  Allen  Lewis,  Valparaiso.  Lay :  Rich¬ 
ard  S.  Tennant,  Terre  Haute;  Abraham  R. 
Colborn,  Michigan  City. 

Northwest  Iowa. — Clerical:  John  W.  Walker, 
Rock  Rapids;  John  B.  Trimble,  Sheldon; 
Robert  Smylie,  Fort  Dodge ;  John  W.  Lothian, 
Ida  Grove.  Lay :  Clarence  P.  Kilbourne 
Sioux  City  ;  Oscar  P.  Miller,  Rock  Rapids. 


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Northwest  Nebraska. —Clerical:  Allen  R.  Julian,  South  Carolina. 

Cliadron.  Lay  :  George  E.  Gorton,  Crawford. 


Norway. — Clerical:  Anders  Olsen,  Christiania. 

Lay :  Toger  Pedersen,  Frederickshald. 
Norwegian  and  Danish.  —  Clerical:  Nels  F. 
Simonseu,  Evanston,  Ill.  Lay:  Marion  S. 
Pihl,  Forest  City,  la. 

Ohio. — Clerical:  David  H.  Moore,  Cincinnati; 
David  Y.  Murdoch,  Athens  ;  William  H.  Eewis, 
Lancaster;  William  D.  Cherington,  Delaware  ; 
John  C.  Arbuckle,  Zanesville.  Lay :  Morris 
Sharp,  Washington  C.  H. ;  Mrs  Jane  F.  Bash- 
ford,  Delaware. 

Oklahoma.— Clerical :  John  F.  Palmer,  Guthrie. 
Lay :  James  F.  Holden,  McAlester,  Indian 
Territory. 

Oregon. — Clerical :  John  Parsons,  Salem  ;  George 
W.  Gue,  Mt.  Tabor.  Lay  :  John  F.  Caples, 
Portland  ;  Robert  A.  Booth,  Grant’s  Pass. 
Philadelphia.  — Clerical :  Thomas  B.  Neely,  Phila¬ 
delphia  ;  Samuel  W.  Gehrett,  Philadelphia ; 
William  M.  Swindells,  Philadelphia;  Samuel 
W.  Thomas,  Philadelphia ;  William  M.  Ridg. 
way,  Middletown  ;  Jacob  S.  Hughes,  Phila¬ 
delphia.  Lay :  Dr.  John  E.  James,  Phila¬ 
delphia  ;  John  Field,  Philadelphia. 
Pittsburg. — Clerical:  Charles  W.  Smith,  Pitts¬ 
burg  ;  Robert  T.  Miller,  Indiana ;  Thomas  H. 
Woodring,  Wilkinsburg  ;  Jesse  F.  Core,  Wash¬ 
ington.  Lay :  Dr.  John  E.  Rigg,  Wilkins¬ 
burg;  Theodore  B.  Noss,  California. 

Puget  Sound. — Clerical :  Thomas  B.  Ford,  Seat¬ 
tle  ;  Thomas  J.  Massey,  Fairhaven.  Lay : 
Calvin  S.  Barlow,  Tacoma ;  Dr.  Rufus  S.  Wil¬ 
lard,  Seattle. 

Rock  River. — Clerical :  Frank  M.  Bristol,  Evans¬ 
ton  ;  Lewis  Curts,  Chicago,  Ill. ;  Henry  G. 
Jackson,  Chicago;  Martin  F.  Cady,  Aurora ; 
Polemus  H.  SwLt,  Englewood ;  William  A. 
Spencer,  Philadelphia;  John  W.  Richards, 
Dekalb.  Lay :  James  B.  Hobbes,  Chicago ; 
Nicholas  G.  VanSant,  Rock  Falls. 

St.  John’s  River. — Clerical :  Luther  S.  Rader, 
Jacksonville,  Fla.  Lay:  Alexander  W.  Biddle, 
Lawtey,  Fla. 

St.  Louis  German. — Clerical :  William  Koeneke, 
Belleville,  Ill. ;  William  Schutz,  Quincy,  Ill.  ; 
John  Slaugenhauf,  Belleville.  Lay  :  Herman 
C.  Grawe,  St.  Louis,  Mo. ;  Friedrich  H.  A. 
Koch,  Burlington,  la. 

Savannah.  -Clerical :  Madison  C.B.  Mason,  South 
Atlanta;  Matthew  M.  Alston,  Rome.  Lay: 
Luther  J.  Price,  South  Atlanta;  John  H. 
Bowen,  Way  Cross. 

South  America. — Clerical:  Charles  W.  Drees, 
Buenos  Ayres,  Argentine  Republic.  Lay : 
Justo  Cubilo,  Montevideo,  Uruguay. 


Clerical :  Benjamin  F.  Wither¬ 
spoon,  Orangeburg;  Joshua  E.  Wilson,  Flor¬ 
ence;  Thomas  J.  Clarke,  Charleston.  Lay: 
William  M.  Bulkley,  Orangeburg;  Edward  J. 
Sawyer,  Burnettsville. 

South  Dakota. —  Clerical :  William  H.  Jordan, 
Sioux  Falls ;  Charles  B.  Clarke,  Huron.  Lay: 
Reuben  N.  Kratz,  Mitchell;  William  F.  T. 
Bushnell,  Aberdeen, 

Southern  California. — Clerical:  Samuel  A. 
Thomson,  Los  Angeles  ;  Winfield  S.  Matthew, 
San  Francisco ;  William  A.  Knighten,  Los 
Angeles.  Lay  :  William  T.  Randall,  Ontario  ; 
Joseph  A.  Williams,  Los  Angeles. 

Southern  German.  —  Clerical:  Henry  Dietz, 
Seguin,  Tex.  Lay :  Charles  F.  Blumberg, 
Seguin,  Tex. 

Southern  Illinois. —  Clerical:  Joseph  W.  Van 
Cleve,  Mt.  Vernon  ;  William  Wallis,  Olney  ; 
Owen  H.  Clark,  Belleville ;  Leonidas  W. 
Thrall,  Salem.  Lay :  McKendree  H.  Cham¬ 
berlain,  Lebanon  ;  Harvey  H.  Crozier,  Carmi. 

South  Germany.— Clerical :  A.  Gerhard  Bruns, 
Stuttgart.  Lay  :  Friedrich  Gutekunst,  Wur- 
temburg. 

South  India. — Clerical :  Albert  H.  Baker,  Vepery, 
Madras.  Lay :  John  H.  Stevens,  Egmore, 
Madras. 

South  Kansas.  —  Clerical :  John  W.  Stewart, 
Ottawa  ;  Samuel  S.  Murphy,  Columbus  ;  Jef¬ 
ferson  F.  Brant,  Fort  Scott.  Lay :  George 
B.  Bowen,  Independence ;  James  E.  Hair, 
Baldwin. 

Southwest  Kansas.— Clerical :  William  J.  Mar- 
tindale,  Wichita  ;  Granvi  Lowther,  Winfield  ; 
William  H.  Rose,  Dodge  City.  Lay :  Janies 
Allison,  Wichita;  Tom  M.  Hutto,  Kingman. 

St.  Louis. — Clerical :  Jesse  B.  Young,  St.  Louis; 
Enoch  J.  Hunt,  Carthage;  William  A.  Quayle, 
Kansas  City.  Lay:  Thomas  J.  Langston, 
West  Plains ;  William  W.  Kendall,  Kansas 
City. 

Sweden. — Clerical:  Jacob  M.  Erickson,  Stock¬ 
holm;  John  F.  Fdman,  Upsala.  Lay  :  John 
A.  Anderson,  Gothenburg ;  Jacob  T.  Jacobe- 
son,  Stockholm. 

Switzerland.  —  Clerical:  Johannes  Wuhrman, 
Berne.  Lay :  Dr.  Gideon  Gisler,  Basel. 

Tennessee. — Clerical:  Hillery  W.  Key,  Mason. 
Lay  :  David  W.  Byrd,  Nashville. 

Texas. —  Clerical:  Isaiah  B.  Scott,  Marshall; 
Wade  H.  Logan,  Marshall  ;  Frank  Gary,  Gal¬ 
veston.  Lay :  Thomas  A.  Fortson,  Prairie 
View  ;  John  W.  Jamison,  Jefferson. 


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Troy  .—Clerical :  J.  H.  Column,  Albany,  N.  Y.  ; 
Homer  Eaton,  New  York;  J.  H.  Brown,  Lans- 
ingburg,  N.  Y.;  G.  A.  Barrett,  Plattsburg ; 

J.  E.  C.  Sawyer,  Syracuse  ;  W.  H.  Hughes, 
Saratoga.  Lay :  Daniel  Hays,  Gloversville ; 

C.  D.  Hammond,  Slinglerlands,  N.  Y. 

Upper^Iowa. — Clerical :  Alpha  J.  Kynett,  Phila¬ 
delphia  ;  J.  Burleigh  Albrook,  Mt.  Vernon ; 
William  F.  Barclay,  Mason  City;  William  F. 
King,  Mt.  Vernon  ;  Stephen  N.  Fellows,  Fay¬ 
ette.  Lay  :  Albert  G.  Ross,  Osage  ;  Thomas 
B.  Taylor,  Hampton. 

Upper  Mississippi. — Clerical:  Richard  Sewell, 
Grenada;  Perry  O.  Jamison,  Tupelo.  Lay : 
Ephraim  H.  McKissack,  Holly  Springs ; 
Joseph  H.  Phillips,  Grenada. 

Vermont. — Clerical:  A.  J.  Hough,  Brattleboro  ; 

J.  O.  Sherburne,  Williamstown.  Lay :  Z.  M. 
Mansur,  Island  Pond;  Moses  P.  Perley,  Enos- 
burg  Falls. 

Virginia. — Clerical :  Stephen  P.  Shipman,  Falls 
Church.  Lay  :  Chester  C.  Gaver,  Hillsboro. 

Washington. — Clerical :  John  W.  E.  Bowen,  At¬ 
lanta,  Ga. ;  William  H.  Brooks,  Deanwood, 

D.  C.  ;  Isaac  E.  Thomas,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Lay :  Charles  F.  Vodery,  Baltimore,  Md.  ; 
Irvin  G.  Penn,  Lynchburg,  Va. 

Western  Swedish. — Clerical :  Oscar  J.  Swau, 
Des  Moines,  la.  Lay :  Charles  O.  Lobeck, 
Omaha,  Neb. 

West  German. — Clerical :  Charles  Harms,  St. 
Joseph,  Mo. ;  Jacob  Tanner,  Lincoln,  Neb. 
Lay :  John  A.  Kost,  St.  Joseph,  Mo. ;  William 
P\  Muenzenmeyer,  Junction  City,  Kan. 

West  Nebraska.  —  Clerical :  Erastus  Smith, 
Kearney ;  Charles  A.  Hale,  Orleans.  Imv  :  ^ 


Jasper  L.  McBrien,  Orleans ;  William  J. 
Crusen,  North  Platte. 

West  Norwegian Jand  Danish.— Clerical:  Carl 
J.  Larsen,  San  Francisco.  (No  Lay.) 

West  Texas. —  Clerical:  Henry  Swann,  Waco; 
Moses  Smith,  Austin.  Lay :  Dr.  Greene  J. 
Starnes,  San  Antonio;  G.  Reid  Townsend, 
Victoria. 

West  Virginia  . — Clerical:  Asbury  Mick,  Buck- 
hannon  ;  David  L.  Ash,  Grafton  ;  John  H. 
Hess,  Buckhannon ;  David  S.  Hammond, 
Huntington.  Lay:  Thomas  P.  Jacobs,  New 
Martinsville ;  George  C.  Sturgess,  Morgan¬ 
town. 

West  Wisconsin. — Clerical :  Samuel  W.  Trous¬ 
dale,  LaCrosse  ;  John  Holt,  Mondovi ;  William 
J.  McKay,  Madison.  Lay :  William  T.  Jen¬ 
nings,  Platteville  ;  Henry  P.  Magill,  LaCrosse. 

Wilmington. — Clerical:  Merritt  Hulburd,  Wil¬ 
mington  ;  Alfred  Smith,  Oxford,  Md.  ;  Lewis 

E.  Barrett,  Wilmington  ;  William  F.  Corkran, 
Seaford,  Del.  Lay :  William  L.  Gooding, 
Dover;  William  H.  Jackson,  Salisbury,  Md. 

Wisconsin. —  Clerical-.  Milton  S.  Terry,  Evans¬ 
ton,  Ill.;  George  H.  Trever,  Milwaukee; 
Ephraim  L.  Eaton,  Racine ;  Edward  S. 
McChesney  (Reserve  in  place  of  Dr.  Stowe), 
Appleton.  Lay:  William  H.  Stevens,  Mil¬ 
waukee  ;  Leander  Ferguson,  Brandon. 

Wyoming. — Clerical :  John  G.  Eckman,  Scran¬ 
ton  ;  Manley  S.  Hard,  Kingston ;  Austin  Griffin, 
Binghamton,  N.  Y. ;  Levi  L.  Sprague,  King¬ 
ston  ;  Asa  J.  Van  Cleft,  Oneonta,  N.  Y.  Lay : 
George  S.  Bennett,  Wilkes  Barre  ;  Abram  I. 
Decker,  Waverly,  N.  Y. 


III.  ALPHABETICAL  LIST  DELEGATES-ELECT, 

WITH  INDEX. 


NAME. 

OCCUPATION. 

r 

> 

H 

H 

*0 

> 

0 

w 

WHERE 

BORN. 

NAME 

OCCUPATION. 

H3 

r 

> 

H 

W 

"0 

> 

pj 

WHERE 

BORN. 

Ackerman,  George  E.,  . 

Univ.  Prof.,  . 

14 

75 

New  York. 

Cady,  Martin  E-,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

2 

51 

Vermont. 

Adams,  Benjamin  F.,  . 

Stone  Quarry, 

4 

55 

Indiana. 

Calleu,  Marshall  M.,  . 

Pastor,  .... 

7 

61 

Tennessee. 

Adams,  John  W.,  .  .  . 

Albert,  Aristides  E.  P., 

Real  Estate,  . 

12 

7i 

Ohio. 

Caples,  John  F\,  .... 

Att’y-at  law,  . 

15 

77 

Ohio. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

16 

79 

Louisiana. 

Carr,  Phylonzo  D.,  .  .  . 

Music  Bus.,  . 

14 

75 

Ohio. 

Albright,  Newell  S.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

2 

51 

Ohio. 

Carter,  Joseph  McK.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

6 

59 

Tennessee. 

Albritton,  Josiah  L.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

10 

67 

Kentucky. 

Chadwick,  James  S.,  . 

Pastor,  .... 

24 

95 

New  York. 

Albrook,  J.  B., . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

8 

63 

Pennsylv  ’a. 

Chaffee,  James  F.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

4 

55 

New  Y’ork. 

Allen,  Chas.  Th . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

13 

73 

Michigan. 

Chamberlin,  McK.  H., 

Coll.  Pres.,  .  . 

13 

73 

Illinois. 

Allen,  Edward  W.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

23 

93 

83 

Indiana. 

Cheney,  Francis  J.,  .  . 

Normal  Princ., 

8 

63 

Pennsylv ’a. 

Ailing,  Ebenezer  B., 

Merchant,  .  . 

IS 

Mississippi 

Clienoweth,  Edw.  S.,  . 

Banker,  .  .  . 

23 

93 

Indiana. 

Allison,  James . 

'fieas.  Cold 
Stor.  Co.,  ‘  ‘ 

21 

89 

Ohio. 

Cheriugton,  Wm.  D.,  . 
Childs,  Edward  F.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 
Lumber,  .  .  . 

II 

25 

69  j 
97 

Ohio. 

Mass. 

Alston,  Matthew  M.,  . 

Pastor . 

Manager,  .  . 

l6 

79 

• 

N.  Carolina. 

Clark,  C.  B . 

Pastor,  .... 

II 

69 

New  York. 

Anderson,  John  A.,  .  . 

Sweden. 

Clark,  Herbert  Ch.,  .  . 

Farmer,  .  .  . 

8 

63  ! 

Illinois. 

Andrus,  J.  E . 

Manufacturer, 

23 

93 

New  York. 

Clark,  Hyre  D.,  .... 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

17 

81 

W.  Virginia. 

Arbuckle,  John  C.,  .  . 

Pastor . 

3 

53 

Scotland. 

Clark,  Owen  H . 

Clarke,  Thomas  J.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

l6 

79 

England. 

Asada,  Rev.  E.,  .... 

Teacher,  .  .  . 

23 

93 

Japan. 

Pastor,  .... 

15 

77 

S.  Carolina. 

Ash,  David  L., . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

II 

69 

W.  Virginia. 

Clendening,  James  H., 

Att’y-at-law,  . 

17 

8l 

New  York. 

Ashley,  Alex., . 

Clerk,  .... 

21 

89 

Pennsylv 'a. 

Cobern,  Camden  McC., 

Pastor,  .... 

I 

49 

Pennsylv  ’a. 

Ayer,  Robert  Bunyan,  . 

Tonsorial  Art., 

15 

77 

Florida. 

Colborn,  Abram  R.,  .  . 

Lumber  Mcht., 

3 

53 

Canada. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

Colby,  Ira, . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

24 

95 

New  Hamp. 

Baker,  Albert  H.,  .  .  . 

27 

101 

Maine. 

Coleman,  J.  H.,  .... 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

27 

IOI 

New  Y’ork. 

Baketel,  Oliver  S.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

24 

95 

Ohio. 

Collett,  Elias  M.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

7 

61 

N.  Carolina. 

Baldwin,  Stephen  E.,  . 

Rec.  Secretary 
Miss’ry  Soc., 

21 

89 

New  Jersey. 

Cooke,  Richard  J.,  .  . 

Coon,  S.  M., . 

Copeland,  Roy  S . 

Editor . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

7 

25 

61 

97 

New  York. 
New  Y'ork. 

Bamford,  Morris,  .  .  . 

Pastor . 

18 

S.3 

Iowa. 

Univ.  Prof.,  . 

10 

67 

Michigan. 

Barclay,  William  F.,  . 

Pastor . 

9 

£>5 

Ohio. 

Core,  Jesse  F . 

Corkran,  Wilbur  F.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

6 

59 

Eennsylv’a. 

Barlow,  Calvin  S.,  .  .  . 

Merchant,  .  . 

14 

75 

Washing’11. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

20 

87 

Maryland. 

Barrett,  Geo.  A . 

Barrett,  Eouis  E . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

26 

99 

Vermont. 

Courtney,  Joseph, .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

19 

85 

Kentucky. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

20 

«7 

Maryland. 

Cowan,  Samuel  A.,  .  . 

Pres.  Pllder,  . 

14 

75 

S.  Carolina. 

Bashford,  James  W.,  . 

Univ.  Pres.,  . 

3 

53 

Wisconsin. 

Cox,  James  Monroe,  .  . 

Coll.  Prof.,  .  . 

14 

75 

Alabama. 

Bashford,  Mrs.  Jane  F., 

Home-maker, 

12 

7i 

Wisconsin. 

Coyle,  John, . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

9 

85 

England. 

Bates  Geo.  H., . 

Belt,  Leroy  A . 

Bendixen,  Henry,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 
Pres.  Elder,  . 

23 

6 

93 

59 

Mass. 

Ohio. 

Cranston,  Earl,  .... 

Agent  Book 
Concern, 

7 

61 

Ohio. 

Merchant,  .  . 

2 

5i 

Germany. 

Crook,  Isaac, . 

Univ.  Pres.,  . 

2 

51 

Ohio. 

Bennett,  Charles  W.,  . 

Supt.  City 
Schools,  ‘  ‘ 

I 

49 

Ohi^ 

Crozier,  Harvey  IL,  .  . 
Crumbaker,  Marion  V., 

Merchant,  .  . 
Pres.  Elder,  . 

13 

4 

73 

55 

Illinois. 

Ohio. 

Bennett,  George  S.,  .  . 

Banker,  .  .  . 

26 

99 

Pennsylv  ’a. 

Crusen,  William  J.,  .  . 

Engineer,  .  . 

9 

85 

Ohio. 

Bentley,  James  J.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

20 

«7 

New  York. 

Cubilo,  Justo, . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

23 

97 

S.  America. 

Benton,  Stephen  O.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 
Editor . 

23 

93 

Connec’cut. 

Cunningham,  Jos.  O.,  . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

5 

57 

New  York. 

Berry,  Joseph  F.,  .  .  . 

15 

77 

Canada. 

Curts,  Lewis, . 

Agent  Book 

n 

61 

Ohio. 

Berrv,  Wilbur  F.,  .  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 
Fruit  Raiser,  . 

27 

101 

Maine. 

Concern, 

Biddle,  Alex  W.,  .  .  . 

23 

93 

Tennessee. 

Bills,  James  Earl,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

17 

81 

New  York. 

Daniels,  William  H. ,  . 

Lay  Mission’y, 

25 

97 

Mass. 

Billups,  H.  L., . 

Teacher,  .  .  . 

23 

93 

Texas. 

Darling,  J.  C . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

24 

95 

New  York. 

Bird,  Benjamin  O.,  .  . 

Teacher,  .  .  . 

27 

IOI 

Virginia. 

Day,  J.  R . 

Chancellor, .  . 

22 

91 

Maine. 

Blumberg,  Charles  F., 

Merchant,  .  . 

12 

71 

Texas. 

Decker,  Abram  I.,  .  .  . 

Tanner,  .  .  . 

24 

95 

New  York. 

Boreing,  Vincent,  .  .  . 
Borland,  Robert  S.,  .  . 

Banker,  .  .  . 

21 

89 

Tennessee. 

Deininger,  John  C..  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

24 

95 

Germany. 

Pastor,  .... 

II 

69 

Pennsylv  ’a. 

Deputie,  James  H.,  .  . 

(Deceased),  .  . 

Booth,  George  M.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

3 

53 

Iowa. 

Dickie,  Samuel . 

Lecturer,  .  .  . 

2 

51 

Canada. 

Booth,  Robert  A.,  .  .  . 

Bank  Cashier, 

17 

8l 

Oregon. 

Diggs,  James  H.,  ... 

Bank  Porter,  . 

27 

IOI 

Missouri. 

Bowen,  George  W.,  .  . 

Miller,  .... 

21 

89 

Ohio. 

Dietz,  Henry, . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

12 

71 

Germany. 

Bowen,  Guy  Hartwell, 
Bowen,  John  W.  E.,  •  ■ 

Postal  Clerk,  . 

15 

77 

Georgia. 

Dingley,  H.  E.,  .... 

W’sale  Grocer, 

25 

97 

R.  Island. 

Coll.  Prof.,  .  . 

iS 

83 

Louisiana. 

Asst.  Secret’y 

21 

89 

New  Y’ork. 

Brant,  Jefferson  E-,  •  • 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

19 

85 

Ohio. 

Doherty,  Robert  R.,  .  . 

S.  S.  Union., 

Bridgeman,  George  H., 

Univ.  Pres.,  . 

10 

67 

Ontario. 

Drees,  Charles  W.,  .  .  . 

Supt.  Miss.,  . 

25 

97 

Ohio. 

Brill,  Hascal  R.,  .... 

Judge,  .  .  .  . 

7 

6l 

Quebec. 

Duering,  H., . 

Printer,  .  .  . 

17 

81 

Germany. 

Bristol,  Frank  M.,  .  . 

Pastor . 

1 

49 

New- York. 

Broadus,  R.  F.,  .... 

25 

97 

Kentucky. 

Eaton,  Ephraim  L  ,  .  • 

Pastor,  .... 
Agent  Book 

10 

67 

Wisconsin. 

Brodbeck,  Wm.  N.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

24 

95 

Ohio. 

25 

97 

Vermont. 

Brooks,  William  H.,  . 

Brown,  J.  H., . 

Brown,  Wm.  L.,  .  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

17 

81 

Maryland. 

Eaton,  Homer,  .... 

Concern, 
Pres.  Elder,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

25 

97 

New  York. 

Eckman,  John  G . 

Kdman,  John  Edw.,  . 

24 

95 

Pennsylv ’a 

Pastor,  .... 

27 

IOI 

Maine. 

Coll.  Pres.,  .  . 

13 

73 

Sweden. 

Browne,  Frank  G.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

20 

87 

Indiana. 

Edmonds,  Eugene  P.,  . 

Pastor . 

5 

57 

Ohio. 

Bruns,  Ahlert  G.,  .  .  . 

Pastor,  .  .  .  . 

16 

79 

Germany. 

Edwards,  Wm.  S.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

18 

83 

W.  Virginia 

Buchtel,  Henry  A.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

19 

85 

Ohio. 

Embree,  Alaric  S.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

18 

83 

Indiana. 

Buck,  Milton  D.,  .  .  . 

Pastor . 

13 

73 

New  Y’ork. 

Emory,  W.  O., . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

)4 

75 

Missouri. 

Buckley,  James  M.,  .  . 

Editor,  .  .  .  . 

20 

«7 

New  Jersey. 

Erikson,  Peter  J.  M.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

14 

75 

Sweden. 

Buell,  James  I.,  .  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

1 

49 

New  Y’ork. 

Evans,  Jervice  G.,  .  .  . 

Coll.  Pres.,  .  . 

2 

51 

Illinois. 

Bulkley,  Wm.  Lewis,  . 

Univ.  Prof.,  . 

15 

77 

S.  Carolina. 

Evans,  William  W.,  .  . 

Pres.  Pllder,  . 

22 

91 

Pennsylv ’a 

Burt,  William . 

Supt.  Italy 
Mission,  ‘  ’ 

13 

73 

England. 

1  Everett,  Thos.  J.,  ... 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

23 

93 

Iowa. 

Bushnell,  W.  F.  T.,  .  . 

Editor,  .  .  .  . 

8 

63 

Illinois. 

J  Farnham,  J.  E.  C.,  .  . 

Printer,  .  .  . 

23 

93 

Mass. 

Butcher,  Mrs.  Ada  C.,  . 

(Missionary,  . 

l6 

79 

Illinois. 

j  Fellows,  Stephen  N.,  . 

Pastor,  .  .  .  . 

5 

57 

New  Hamp 

Butler,  John  Wesley,  . 

(Pres.  Elder,  . 

15 

77 

Mass. 

!  Ferguson,  Leander,  .  . 

j  Merchant,  .  . 

II 

69 

New  Y’ork. 

Buttz,  Henry  A . 

Pres.  Drew 
Semin’y,  '  ' 

22 

91 

Field,  John, . 

!  Fisher,  Oscar  Louis,  .  . 
Fiske,  Lewis  Ransom, 

Banker,  .  .  . 
|Univ.  Pres.,  . 

18 

l6 

83 

79 

Ireland. 

Illinois. 

Byrd,  David  W.,  .... 

j  Teacher,  .  .  . 

II 

69 

Ohio. 

| Col  1.  Pres.,  .  . 

9 

65 

New  Y’ork. 

107 


io8 


©yvffiiF 


NAME. 


Forbes,  Robert,  .  .  .  . 
Force,  Dr.  Jacob  F.,  .  . 
Ford,  Thomas  B.,  .  .  . 
Fortson,  Thomas  A.,  . 
Fowler,  James  Alex.,  . 
Fowler,  Jas.  L.,  .  .  .  . 
Fox,  Daniel  Ormsby,  . 
Fradenburgh,  Jason  N., 
Franklin,  De  Witt  C.,  . 

French,  Henry . 

French,  John, . 

Fryhoffer,  William,  .  . 
Frysinger,  Wm.  M.,  .  . 
Ftirier,  John, . 

Galeener,  Christie,  .  . 
Gamer,  Frederick,  .  . 

Gary,  Frank, . 

Gaver,  C.  C., . 

Gelirett,  Samuel  W.,  .  . 
Gibbs,  Asaph  H.,  .  .  . 

Gibson,  Wm. 

Gidley,  Harvey  J.,  .  .  . 
Giessler,  Gideon,  .  .  . 

Gilluly,  Joseph  W.,  .  . 

Gillum,  Richard  E.,  .  . 
Gobiu,  Hillary  A.,  .  .  . 

Gooding,  William  L.,  . 

Gordon,  David,  .... 
Gorton,  Geo  E . 

Goucher,  John  F . 

Gould,  Amos  M.,  .  .  . 

Graw,  Jacob  B.,  .  .  .  . 
Grawe,  Herman  C.,  .  . 

Gray,  Edward  J.,  .  .  ; 

Graybeal,  Adolphus,  . 
Green,  Theron  R . 

Griffin,  Austin,  .... 

Gue,  George  W.,  .  .  .  . 
Gutekunst, Friedrich,  . 
Guth,  George . 

Haeussler,  Jacob  H.,  . 

Hair,  James  E-,  .  .  .  . 
Hale,  Charles  A.,  .  .  . 

Haley,  J.  F., . 

Hall,  J.  F., . 

Halstead,  Wm.  R.,  .  .  . 
Hamilton,  James,  .  .  . 

Hamilton,  J.  W.,  .  .  .  . 

Hamilton,  Wm.  E.,  .  . 
Hammond,  Chas.  D.,  . 
Hammond,  D.  S.,  ... 
Hammond,  Edw.  W.  S., 
Haney,  James  W.,  .  .  . 

Hard,  Manley  S.,  ... 

Harlan,  James . 

Harms,  Chas.  Ch.,  .  .  . 
Harris,  A.  W., . 

Hartzell,  Joseph  C.,  .  . 

Haw,  Christopher,  .  .  . 
Hays,  Daniel,  .  ... 

Heavenridge,  M.  S.,  . 
Henke,  Edward  W.,  .  . 
Herrick,  Horace  N.,  .  . 

Hess,  John  H. . 

Hickman.  Wm.  H.,  .  . 
Hill,  George  H.,  .... 
Hill,  Judson  S.,  .  .  .  . 
Hills,  Charles  D.,  .  .  . 
Hingeley,  Joseph  B.,  . 

Hobbs,  James  B.,  .  .  . 
Hodgetts,  Alfred,  .  .  . 
Holden,  Alex.  M.,  .  .  . 
Holden,  James  F.,  .  .  . 

Holt,  John, . 

Holtz,  Earl  Douglas,  . 

Honda  Yoitsu . 

Hough,  Alfred  J . 

Huger,  Stephen  A.,  .  . 
Hughes,  Jacob  S.,  .  .  . 
Hughes,  W.  H.,  .... 
Hulburd,  Merritt,  .  .  . 
Hunt,  Enoch  J.,  .  .  .  . 
Hunt,  Sandford,  .  .  .  . 
Huntington,  De  W.  C., 
Huntly,  George  F.,  .  . 
Hutto,  Tom'M.,  .  .  .  . 


OCCUPATION. 

r 

;> 

0 

WHERE 

NAME. 

w 

H 

BORN. 

Pastor . 

4 

55 

Ontario. 

]  Jackson,  Henry  G.,  .  . 

I.ife  Ins.,  .  .  . 

10 

(57 

New  York. 

Jackson,  Janies  W.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

7 

6l 

Tennessee. 

Jackson,  William  H.,  . 

Teacher,  .  .  . 

12 

71 

Georgia. 

(Jacobs,  Thomas  P.,  .  . 

[  Jacobson,  Jacob,  Th.,  . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 
Pres.  Elder,  . 

10 

67 

Tennessee. 

26 

99 

Georgia. 

J  allies,  John  E . 

Pastor,  .  .  . 

l6 

79 

New  York. 

Jamison,  John  W . 

Teacher,  .  .  . 

I 

49 

New  York. 

Jamison,  Perry  O.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

8 

t>3 

Wisconsin. 

Jennings,  Henry  C.,  .  . 

Merchant,  .  . 

17 

81 

England. 

Jennings,  William  T.,  . 

Ret'd  Builder, 

24 

95 

England. 

Jones,  Edward  M.,  .  .  . 

Farmer,  .  .  . 

18 

8.3 

Indiana. 

Jones,  L.  Orville,  .  .  . 

Pastor,  .  .  . 

20 

s7 

Pennsylv  ’a. 

I  Johnson,  George  B.,  .  . 

Mcht.  Tailor, 

6 

59 

Switzerl’d. 

Johnson,  James  R.,  .  . 
j  Jordan,  William  H.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

4 

55 

Ohio. 

J ulian,  Allen  R.,  .  .  . 

Merchant,  .  . 

5 

57 

Germany. 

Pastor . 

Justice,  etc.,  . 
Pres.  Elder,  . 

14 

75 

S.  Carolina. 

Karpowsky,  Emil,  .  . 

18 

»3 

Maryland. 

Kern, Joseph . 

l8 

«3 

Pennsylv  ’  a. 

Kellerman,  Charles  R., 

Merchant,  .  . 

i.S 

77 

Alabama. 

Kellev,  William  V.,  .  . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

26 

99 

Indiana. 

Kendall,  William  W.,  . 

Ins.  Agent,  .  . 

II 

69 

New  York. 

Kepler,  William,  .  .  . 

Physician,  .  . 

17 

bi 

Switzerl’d. 

Ketron,  Henry  F . 

Treasurer  R. 

R.  Co., 

7 

61 

New  Jersey. 

Key,  Hilary  W . 

Keys,  Thomas  I . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

19 

§5 

Missoifri. 

Kilborne,  Clarence  P., 

Univ.  Pres.,  . 
Princip.  Conf. 
Seminary, 

3 

53 

Indiana. 

King,  J.  M . 

20 

87 

Maryland. 

King,  John  Dempster,  . 
King,  William  F.,  .  .  . 

Merchant,  .  . 

23 

93 

Scotland. 

Kinney,  A.  B.  F.,  ... 

Kirby,  John, . 

Pharmacist,  . 

20 

»7 

Michigan. 

Pres.  Woman’s 

89 

Pennsylv  ’a. 

Kiitleman,  James  M.,  . 

College, 

Knighten,  William  A., 

Pastor,  .... 

3 

53 

Michigan. 

Koeneke,  William,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

19 

85 

New  Jersey. 

Koch,  Fred.  H.  A.,  .  . 

Merchant,  .  . 

9 

65 

Germany. 

Kost,  John  A . 

Pres.  Dickin¬ 
son  Sem’ry, 

21 

89 

Pennsylv ’a. 

Kratz,  Reuben  N.,  .  .  . 
Kumler,  John  A.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

11 

69 

N.  Carolina. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

11 

69 

New  York. 

Kyuett,  Alpha  J.,  .  .  .  j 

Cor.  Secretary 
Preach.  Aid  S., 
Pres.  Elder,  . 

24 

8 

95 

6.3 

New  York. 

Ohio. 

Lauahan, John . 

Local  Preach., 

17 

8l 

Germany. 

Langston,  Thomas  J.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

7 

6l 

Ohio. 

Latnpert,  Barthol.,  .  . 
Larsen,  Carl  J.,  .... 

Insurance,  .  . 

10 

67 

Germany. 

Lasby,  Charles  C.,  .  .  . 

Banker,  .  . 

26 

99 

Ohio. 

Latimer,  Ebenezer  H., 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

4 

55 

New  York.  | 

Laylin,  Lewis  C.,  .  .  .  1 
Leitch,  William  A  , 

Pastor . 

27 

JOI 

Maine. 

Manufacturer, 

27 

101 

Maine. 

Lemcke,  Henry,  .  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 
Pastor,  .... 

2 

13 

51 

73 

Indiana. 

Canada. 

Leonard,  Adna  B.,  .  .  . 

Cor.  Secretary 
Freedm’s  Aid 

25 

97 

Virginia. 

Lewis,  Allen, . 

Lewis,  William  H.,  .  . 

Coll.  Prof.,  .  . 

5 

57 

Ohio. 

Libby,  Isaac  Chase,  .  . 

Ry.  Superint., 

27 

101 

New  York. 

Lindsay,  G  D.,  .... 
Lindgreu,  John  R.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

12 

71 

W. Virginia.  | 

Editor,  .... 
Pres.  Elder,  . 

19 

2 

«5 

5i 

Maryland. 

Illinois. 

Little,  Charles  J.,  .  .  . 

Asst.  Cor.  Sec. 

20 

87 

New  York.  [ 

Lobeck,  Charles  Otto,  . 

Church  Ext., 

Logan,  Wade  H.,  .  .  . 

Logan,  William  H.,  .  . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

13 

73 

Illinois. 

Pastor,  .... 
Coll.  Pres.,  .  . 

1 

49 

Illinois. 

Long,  Charles  H.,  .  .  . 

27 

101 

Pennsylv 'a. 

Lothian,  John  W . 

Cor.  Secretary 
Freedm.  Aid, 

14 

75 

Illinois. 

Lowry,  Hiram  H.,  .  .  . 
Lowtiier,  Granville,  .  . 

Merchant,  .  . 

11 

69 

Wisconsin. 

Ludlow,  Christopher,  . 

Manufacturer, 

27 

IOI 

New  York. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

10 

67 

Indiana. 

Mace,  James  R.,  .  .  .  . 

Pastor . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

16 

79 

Illinois. 

Magee,  Charles  R.,  .  . 

22 

9i 

Indiana. 

Magill,  Henry  P.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

10 

67 

Maryland. 

Mahin,  Augustus  E.,  . 

Pastor . 

1 

49 

Kentucky.  | 

Mains,  George  P.,  .  .  .  1 

Pastor,  ... 

22 

9i 

Vermont. 

Mando,  Luigi . 

Normal  Pres., 

10 

67 

New  Jersey. 

Mansfield,  John  A.,  .  . 

Pastor . 

25 

97 

Conuec’cut.  j 

Mansur,  Z.  M.,  .  .  .  . 

Pastor . 

8 

83 

Pennsylv’a. 

Marsh,  W.  D., . 

Retired,  .  .  . 

2 

5i 

Maine. 

Marshall,  Julian  F.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

5 

57 

New  York. 

Martin,  John  H.,  ... 

Banker,  .  .  . 

6 

59 

New  York. 

Martindale,  Wm.  T.,  .  . 

K.  R.  Man’r., 
Pastor,  .... 

15 

6 

77 

59 

Ontario. 

England. 

Mason,  Madison  C.  B., 

Pres.  Elder.  . 

12 

7i 

Ohio. 

Massey,  Thomas  Joy,  . 

Coll.  Pres.,  .  . 

12 

7i 

Japan. 

Master,  Levi, . 1 

Pastor,  .... 

23 

97 

England. 

Mathews,  Trevan.  L-,  • 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

l6 

79 

S.  Carolina. 

Matthew,  Winfield  S.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

22 

9i 

Pennsylv’a. 

Maxfield,  John  B.,  .  .  . 

Pastor,  .  .  .  • 

26 

99 

New  York. 

Maveety,  Patrick  J.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

20 

87 

Vermont. 

McBrien,  Jasper  L.,  •  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

20 

87 

Missouri. 

McCabe,  C.  C., . 

(Deceased),.  . 

7 

6l 

New  York. 

McCliesney,  Edw.  S.,  . 

j  Pastor . 

4 

55 

Vermont. 

McCullough,  Isaac  N., 

Foreman,  .  . 

15 

77 

Mississippi 

McCully,  John  D.,  .  .  . 
McElroy,  William  N.,  . 

(Jeweler,  .  .  . 

21 

89 

Indiana. 

1  * 

OCCUPATION. 

;» 

> 

0 

WHERE 

H 

M 

w 

BORN. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

II 

69 

Indiana. 

iPres.  Elder,  . 

22 

91 

Ohio. 

1  Manufacturer, 

20 

87 

Maryland. 

Judge . 

7 

6l 

Maryland. 

Merchant,  .  . 

13 

73 

Sweden. 

Physician,  .  . 

19 

8.5 

Pennsylv’a. 

Teacher,  .  .  . 

21 

89 

Mississippi 

Pres.  Elder.  . 

14 

75 

Mississippi 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

10 

97 

Illinois. 

Merchant,  .  . 

4 

55 

Michigan. 

Pres.  FOlder,  . 

15 

77 

Alabama. 

Merchant,  .  . 

4 

55 

Wisconsin. 

.Cashier,  .  .  . 
Merchant,  .  . 

5 

57 

Ohio. 

13 

73 

Tennessee. 

Pastor,  .... 

9 

85 

Mass. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

9 

85 

Indiana. 

Writer . 

2 

5i 

Germany. 

Pastor,  .... 

3 

53 

Michigan. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

13 

73 

Prussia. 

Editor . 

Merchant, 

22 

9i 

New  Jersey. 
Connec’cut. 

19 

«5 

Pastor,  .... 

16 

79 

Ohio. 

Acad’y  Princ., 

13 

73 

Tennessee. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

8 

8.3 

Tennessee. 

Real  Est.  Agt., 

17 

81 

Mississippi 

Traveler,  .  .  . 

7 

6l 

Ontario. 

Pastor . 

22 

9i 

Pennsvlv’a. 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 
Coll.  Pres.,  .  . 

5 

57 

Ohio. 

8 

83 

Ohio. 

Merchant,  .  . 

24 

95 

Canada. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

12 

7i 

England. 

Merchant,  .  . 

3 

53 

Iowa. 

Pastor,  .... 

b 

59 

Indiana. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

1 

49 

Ohio. 

Insurance,  .  . 

2 

51 

Germany. 

Mgr.  Dry  G’ds. 

5 

57 

Missouri. 

Pastor,  .... 

1 1 

89 

Ohio. 

Pastor,  .... 

12 

7i 

Ohio. 

Cor.  Secretary 
Church  Ext.S., 

9 

65 

Pennsylv 'a. 

Supt.  Baltim’e 
Book  Room, 

18 

83 

Virginia. 

Merchant,  .  . 

24 

94 

Missouri. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

1 

49 

Wisconsin. 

Pres.  Elder.  . 

15 

76 

Norway. 

Pastor . 

8 

62 

Canada. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

4 

55 

New  York. 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

5 

57 

Ohio 

Bank  Teller,  . 

21 

89 

Missouri. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

7 

6l 

Germany. 

Cor.  Secretary 

5i 

Ohio. 

Mission  Soc., 

Pastor . 

I 

49 

Indiana. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

3 

53 

Ohio. 

Farmer,  .  .  . 

14 

75 

Maine. 

Pastor . 

26 

99 

Ireland. 

Cashier,  .  .  . 
Pres.  Garrett 

I 

23 

49 

Illinois. 

Pennsylv  a. 

Institute, 

93 

Merchant,  .  . 

7 

61 

Illinois. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

13 

73 

Texas. 

Farmer,  .  .  . 

2 

51 

Indiana. 

Physician,  .  . 

2 

51 

Illinois. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

5 

57 

Scotland. 

Univ.  Pres.,  . 

18 

83 

Ohio. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

21 

89 

W. Virginia. 

Local  Preach., 

J7 

8l 

England. 

Pastor . 

19 

85 

N.  Brunsw. 

Agt.  Boston), 

24 

95 

New  York. 

Banker,  .  .  . 

7 

6l 

Ohio. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

24 

95 

Indiana. 

Pastor,  .... 

24 

95 

New  York. 

Gov.  Clerk,  .  . 

13 

73 

Italy, 

Judge,  .... 

6 

59 

Ohio. 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

25 

97 

Vermont. 

Pastor,  .... 
Pres.  Elder,  . 

25 

97 

New  York. 

14 

75 

Virginia. 

Coll.  Pres.,  .  . 

14 

75 

Pennsylv’a. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

21 

89 

Indiana. 

Freedmen's 
Aid  Soc., 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

l6 

79 

Louisiana. 

12 

7i 

Illinois. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

8 

63 

Canada. 

Real  Estate.,  . 

9 

65 

Pennsylv’a. 

Editor,  .... 

10 

67 

Illinois. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

4 

55 

New  York. 

Pastor,  .... 

9 

65 

Ireland. 

Coll.  Dean,  .  . 

15 

77 

Missouri. 

Miss.  Sec’y,  . 

22 

9i 

Ohio. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

15 

77 

Pennsylv’a. 

Music  Teach., 

19 

85 

W.  Virginia. 

Merchant,  .  . 

26 

99 

Oregon. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

4 

55 

Ohio. 

109 


NAME. 

OCCUPATION. 

PLATE... 

PAGE . 

WHERE 

BORN. 

NAME. 

OCCUPATION. 

PLATE... 

PAGE . 

WHERE 

BORN. 

McFarland.  John  T  ,  . 

Pastor,  .... 

4 

55 

Indiana. 

Richards,  John  W.,  .  . 

Pastor . 

6 

59 

New  Y’ork. 

McKay,  Wm.  J.,  .  .  .  . 
McKissack,  Eph.  H.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

6 

59 

Ireland. 

Ridgway,  William  M., 

Pastor,  .... 

21 

89 

Pennsylv’a. 

Univ.  Prof.,  . 

13 

73 

Tennessee. 

Rigg,  John  Edwin,  .  . 
Robinson,  George  O.,  . 

Physician,  .  . 

9 

85 

Pennsylv’a. 

Merchant,  Andrew  J.,  . 

Pastor,  .... 
Superintend’ t 
Pub.  Schools, 

3 

53 

New  York. 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

I 

49 

Vermont. 

Merrill,  Galen  A . 

10 

67 

Michigan. 

Roe,  Joseph  L-,  .... 
Romer,  John  . . 

Pastor,  .... 
Lawyer,  .  . 

19 

4 

85 

55 

New  Jersey. 
New  York. 

Merrill,  W.  W. . 

26 

99 

Maine. 

Rose,  Wm.  H., . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

22 

91 

Indiana. 

Merritt,  Leonidas, 

Miner’l  Expl., 

12 

71 

New  Y’ork. 

Ross,  Albert  C.,  .  .  .  . 
Rothweiler,  Jacob,  .  . 

Editor,  .... 

7 

6l 

Pennsylv’  a. 

Mick,  Asbury . 

Pastor . 

II 

69 

W. Virginia. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

10 

67 

Germany. 

Mickey,  John  H.,  .  .  . 

Bank  Pres.,  . 

6 

59 

Iowa. 

Ruble,  James  A . 

Rusling,  James  F.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

12 

71 

Tennessee. 

Miles,  Wm.  H.,  .... 

Manufacturer, 

26 

99 

Maine. 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

19 

85 

New  Jersey. 

Miller,  Emory . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

6 

59 

Pennsylv  ’a. 

Ryan,  Edward  W.,  .  . 

Pastor . 

12 

71 

Virginia. 

Miller,  James  M.,  .  .  . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

18 

»3 

Pennsylv  ’a. 

Miller,  Oscar  P.,  .... 

Banker,  .  .  . 

6 

59 

New  York. 

Salzer,  Henry  A . 

Merchant,  .  . 

7 

61 

Iowa. 

Miller,  Robert  T.  .  .  . 

Inland  Oil  Co., 

5 

57 

Ohio. 

Sargent,  lames  A.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

5 

51 

Ohio. 

Miller,  Robert  Th.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

15 

77 

Pennsvlv  ’a. 

Sawyer,  Edward  J.,  .  . 

Editor,  .... 

23 

93 

N.  Carolina. 

Mills,  Edmund  M.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

7 

6l 

New  Y’ork. 

Sawyer,  J.  E-  C. . 

Editor,  .... 

25 

97 

Mass. 

Mills,  Jacob, . 

Univ.  Agent,  . 

9 

65 

Vermont. 

Schell,  Carl, . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

1 7 

8l 

Germany. 

Mitchell,  Frank  G.,  .  . 

Pastor . 

9 

95 

Ohio. 

Sehlagenhauf,  John,  . 

Pastor,  .... 

3 

53 

Germany. 

Mitchell,  John,  .... 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

5 

57 

Ohio. 

Schutz,  William,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

2 

51 

Prussia. 

Moore,  David  H . 

Editor . 

3 

53 

Ohio. 

Scofield,  John  C.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

I 

49 

New  York. 

Monroe,  David  S.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

19 

«5 

Virginia. 

Scott,  Isaiah  B.,  .... 

Univ.  Pres.,  . 

13 

73 

Kentucky. 

Monroe,  Henry  A.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

21 

S9 

Pennsylv  ’a. 

Scott,  James  H.,  .  .  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

26 

99 

Maryland. 

Morse,  Charles  C.,  .  .  . 

Manager  of 
Newspaper,  ' 

14 

75 

Vermont. 

Scott,  Jefferson  E.,  •  • 
Scott,  Julian  F.,  .... 

Pres.  Elder,  . 
Missionary,  . 

17 

15 

8l 

77 

Ohio. 

Ohio. 

Morris,  Chas.  D.,  .  .  . 

Editor,  .... 

16 

Scott,  Thomas  J.,  .  .  . 

Missionary,  . 

l6 

79 

Ohio. 

Morris,  James, . 

Architect,  .  . 

79 

England. 

Session,  John  H.,  .  .  . 

Bank  Pres.  .  . 

24 

95 

Conn  ticut. 

Morris,  Wm.  T.,  .  .  .  . 

Teacher,  .  .  . 

Sewell,  Richard . 

Pastor,  .... 

15 

77 

Mississippi 

Morrison,  John  B.,  .  . 

Merchant,  .  . 

22 

9i 

Ohio. 

Sharp,  Morris, . 

Banker,  .  .  . 

3 

53 

Ohio. 

Morse,  S.  Abishai,  .  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

6 

59 

Ontario. 

Shaw,  Leslie  M.,  .... 
Sherburne,  Joel  O.,  .  . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

7 

61 

Y’ermont. 

Motter,  John  A.,  .  .  .  . 
Mueller,  Charles  E-,  •  • 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

is 

«3 

Indiana. 

Pastor,  .... 

25 

97 

Vermont. 

Merchant,  .  . 

8 

&3 

Wisconsin. 

Shier,  William  H.,  .  .  . 
Shipman,  Stephen  P.,  . 

Pastor . 

l6 

79 

New  Jersey. 

Muenzenmayer,  W.  F., 

Merchant, 

9 

65 

Missouri. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

21 

89 

Virginia. 

Muller,  Darius  H.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

2 

5^ 

Maryland. 

Shoemaker,  Clem.  W., 

Glass . 

19 

«5 

New  Jersey. 

M unger,  R  De  Witt,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

7 

bi 

New  York. 

Shriver,  A., . 

Shumpert,  James  M.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

23 

93 

New  Y’ork. 

Murdoch,  David  Y.,  .  . 

Pastor . 

3 

53 

Ohio. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

14 

75 

Mississippi 

Murphy,  Samuel  S.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

19 

«5 

Indiana. 

Simonsen,  Nels  Edw.,  . 
Sims,  Ashford  L-,  •  ■  • 

Sem’y  Pres.,  . 

8 

t>3 

Wisconsin. 

Murphy,  William  H.,  . 

Manuf.  (retj,  . 

20 

99 

New  Jersey. 

Farmer,  .  .  . 

Murray,  Thomas  H.,  . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

19 

85 

Pennsylv 'a. 

Smith,  Alfred . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

20 

87 

Delaware. 

Myers,  Thomas  J.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

4 

55 

Indiana.  Y 

Smith,  Charles  W.,  .  . 

Editor,  .... 

IO 

67 

Pennsylv’a. 

Smith,  Erastus,  .... 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

10 

67 

Pennsylv’a. 

Nagler,  Franz  L-,  .  •  • 

Editor,  .... 

1 

49 

Germany. 

Smith,  George  W.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

22 

9i 

New  Jersey. 

blast,  Albert  J.,  .  .  .  . 

Editor,  .... 

13 

73 

Ohio. 

Smith,  Moses . 

Pastor,  .... 

22 

9i 

Texas. 

Naylor,  John  M . 

Merchant,  .  . 

9 

65 

Ohio, 

Smith,  William  T.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

3 

53 

Illinois. 

Needham,  Arnold,  Th., 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

9 

&5 

I.  Guernsey. 

Smylie,  Robert,  .... 

Pastor,  .... 

6 

59 

Ontario. 

Neely,  Thomas  B.,  .  .  . 

Pastor . 

20 

87 

Pennsylv ’a. 

Snyder,  ZachariahX.,  . 

Normal  Pres., 

2 

5i 

Pennsylv  ’a. 

Nelson,  Edward  Th.,  . 

Univ.  Prof.,  . 

16 

79 

Ohio. 

Spellmeyer,  Henry,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

26 

99 

New  Y’ork. 

Newkirk,  William,  .  . 
Nicholls,  John  C.,  .  .  . 

Manufacturer, 
Pastor,  .... 

10 

11 

f>7 

69 

Pennsylv ’a. 
New  York. 

Spencer,  William  A.,  . 

Cor.  Sec.  Board 
Church  Ext., 

9 

65 

Illinois. 

North,  Crandall,  J.,  .  . 
Noss,  Theodore  Bland, 

Pres.  Elder,  . 
Normal  Princ  , 

26 

5 

99 

57 

New  York. 
Pennsylv ’a. 

Sprague,  Levi  L-,  .  •  . 

Princ.  Wyom’g 
Seminary, 

20 

87 

New  Y’ork. 

Nottingham,  Edwin,  . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

12 

7i 

New  York. 

Stafford,  Charles  L.,  .  . 

Univ.  Pres.,  . 

6 

59 

Ohio. 

Stafford,  John, . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

9 

85 

England. 

Olsen,  Anders,  .... 

Editor,  .... 

17 

81 

Norway. 

Starnes,  C.  J., . 

Chief  Surgeon, 

27 

101 

Tennessee. 

Osbon,  E-  S., . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

22 

9i 

Vermont. 

Stemen,  Christian  B  ,  . 

Pres.  Elder.  . 

21 

89 

Ohio. 

Osborne,  David  C.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder.  . 

12 

7i 

New  York. 

Stevens,  J.  H . 

Government 
Publ.Works,  ' 

Palmer,  A.  J., . 

Palmer,  John  F.,  .  .  . 

Pastor . 

22 

9i 

New  Jersey. 

Stevens,  William  H.,  . 

Merchant,  .  . 

4 

55 

New  Hamp. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

16 

79 

Indiana. 

Stevenson,  Daniel  .  . 

Coll.  Pres.,  .  . 

12 

7i 

Kentucky. 

Parker,  Edwin  W.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

16 

79 

Vermont. 

Stewart,  John  W . 

Pastor . 

22 

9i 

Ohio. 

Parker,  Mrs.  Lois  S.,  . 

Missionary,  . 

16 

79 

Vermont. 

Stewart,  Lemuel  H.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

16 

79 

Ohio. 

Parker,  Stanford  L-,  •  • 

Merchant,  .  . 

26 

99 

Delaware. 

Stith,  George  W.,  .  .  . 

Teacher,  .  .  . 

14 

75 

Mississippi 

Parr,  Wiliam  D.,  .... 

Pastor,  .... 

22 

9i 

Indiana, 

Stowe,  Wm.  P.,  .  .  .  . 

(Deceased),  .  . 

Parsons,  John,  .... 
Patterson,  John  S.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

20 

87 

England. 

Sturgis,  Geo.  C . 

Attorney,  .  . 

22 

9i 

Ohio. 

Merchant,  .  . 

23 

93 

Virginia. 

.Sullivan,  Henry  P.,  .  . 

Manager,  .  . 

5 

57 

Pennsylv’a. 

Patton,  John, . 

Banker,  .  .  . 

24 

95 

Pennsylv’a. 

Swallow,  Silas  C.,  .  .  . 

Editor . 

19 

85 

Pennsylv’a. 

Payne,  Charles  H.,  .  . 

Genl  Secretary 
Educat.  Soc’y, 

6 

59 

Massachus. 

Swan,  Oscar  J . 

Swann,  Harry,  .... 

Pres.  Elder,  . 
Pres.  Elder,  . 

3 

17 

53 

81 

Sweden. 

Arkansas. 

Peake,  A.  D., . 

Pedersen,  Toger,  .  .  . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

22 

9i 

New  York. 

Swarthout,  Elvin,  .  .  . 

Att’y-at-law,  . 

2 

5i 

Michigan. 

Sea  Captain,  . 

18 

Norway. 

Sweet.  John, . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

12 

7i 

England. 

Penn,  Irvine  G. . 

Publisher,  .  . 

83 

Virginia. 

Sweet,  William  H.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

21 

89 

Ohio. 

Perley,  Moses  P . 

Manufacturer, 

25 

97 

Vermont. 

Swift,  Polemus  H.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

s 

63 

Wisconsin. 

Phillips,  Joseph  H  , 

Contractor, 

14 

75 

N.  Carolina. 

Swindells,  Wm.  M.,  .  . 

Editor,  .... 

18 

83 

England. 

Pierce,  David  F. . 

Pastor,  .... 

26 

99 

New  York. 

Pihl,  Marius  J.,  .  .  .  . 

Banker,  .  .  . 

I 

49 

Denmark. 

Talbot,  Micha  J . 

Supern’rary,  . 

23 

93 

Maine. 

Plannette,  D.  C.,  ... 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

26 

99 

Pennsylv  ’a. 

Talbott,  Henry  J . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

5 

57 

Indiana. 

Poland,  John  H  ,  ... 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

20 

87 

Ohio. 

Tanner  Frank  H.,  .  .  . 

V.  P.  Elev  Co. 

20 

8/ 

Ohio. 

Potts,  James  Henry,  . 
Prather,  Silas  H.,  .  .  . 

Editor . 

I 

49 

Canada. 

Tanner,  Jacob . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

2 

5i 

Switzerl’d. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

3 

53 

Pennsylv’a. 

Taylor,  Andrew  J.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

14 

73 

Arkansas. 

Price,  Luther  J . 

Pritchard,  C.  J.  A.,  .  .  . 

Merchant,  .  . 

17 

8l 

Georgia. 

Taylor,  Edward  M.,  .  . 

Pastor . 

26 

99 

Pennsylv’a. 

Printer,  .  .  . 

India. 

Taylor,  Thomas  B.,  .  . 

Att’y-at-law,  . 

8 

63 

Iowa. 

Tennant,  Richard  S.,  . 

Lawyer,  .  .  . 

27 

lOI 

Indiana. 

Quayle,  William  A.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

21 

89 

Missouri. 

Terry,  Milton  S.,  ... 

Univ.  Prof.,  . 

4 

55 

New  York. 

Quimby,  Silas  E . 

Pastor . 

25 

97 

New  Hamp. 

Teter,  Isaac  P.,  .... 

Pastor . 

2 

5t 

Y’irginia. 

Thomas,  Isaac  L . 

Pastor,  .... 

18 

83 

Maryland. 

Rader,  Daniel  L-,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

12 

7i 

Missouri. 

Thomas,  Samuel  WT.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

l8 

S3 

Delaware. 

Rader,  Luther  Stahl,  . 
Randall,  William  T.,  . 

Pastor,  .... 

15 

77 

Ohio. 

Thomas,  Wade  H.,  .  . 

U.  S.  Ry.  Clk., 

II 

69 

S.  Carolina. 

Dean  of  Coll., 

10 

67 

Maine. 

Thomson,  Samuel  A.,  . 

Pastor . 

13 

73 

Ireland. 

Rasmussen,  Peter,  .  . 
Reed,  George . 

Germany. 

Thorndike,  Edward  R., 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

24 

95 

Maine. 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

19 

85 

New  Jersey. 

Thrall,  Leonidas  W.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

I 

49 

Illinois. 

Reed,  George  E.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Dickin¬ 
son  Coll., 

23 

93 

Maine. 

Townsend,  G.  Keid,  .  . 
Trever,  George  H.,  .  . 

Physician,  .  . 
Pastor . 

l6 

II 

79 

69 

N.  Carolina. 
England. 

Reed,  Horace, . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

4 

55 

Ohio. 

Trimble,  J.  B., . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

17 

8l 

Canada. 

Rees,  Wm.  H.  W . 

Rec.  Secretary 

6 

59 

Illinois. 

Trimble,  Miss  L.  A.,  . 

Trousdale,  Samuel  W., 

Missionary,  . 

12 

7i 

Canada. 

Freedm’s  Aid., 

Pastor,  .... 

8 

83 

Wisconsin. 

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Underwood,  Wra.  H.,  . 

Pies.  Elder,  . 

23 

93 

New  York. 

Wilbor,  Carlton  C.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

5 

57 

New  York. 

Upham,  S.  F., . 

Prof.  Theol.,  . 

23 

93 

Mass. 

Wilcox,  Myron  C . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

17 

8l 

Illinois. 

Wilder,  Wm.  Henry,  .  . 

Univ.  Pres.,  . 

I 

49 

Illinois. 

Van  Bensehoten,  S.  M., 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

29 

99 

New  York. 

Wight,  George  B.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

19 

85 

Mass. 

Van  Cleft,  Asa  J.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

24 

95 

New  York. 

Wigren,  James  T.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

3 

53 

Indiana. 

Van  Cleve,  Joseph  W.,  . 

Pastor,  .... 

5 

57 

Illinois. 

Wilker,  Victor . 

Coll.  Prof.,  . 

9 

65 

Germany. 

Van  Dusen,  W.  W.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

10 

67 

New  York. 

Williams,  John  E-,  ■  • 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

13 

73 

Canada. 

Van  Pelt,  Samuel,  ,  .  . 

Sem’y  Pres.,  . 

10 

67 

Kentucky. 

Williams,  Joseph  A.,  . 

Merchant,  .  . 

8 

63 

Michigan. 

Van  Sant,  N.G.,  .... 

Lumb’r  Mcht., 

I 

49 

Illinois. 

Willard,  Rufus . 

Physician,  .  . 

II 

69 

Illinois. 

Vodery,  Chas.  F.,  ... 

Merchant,  .  . 

23 

93 

Maryland. 

Willis,  Elbridge,  R.,  . 

Pres.  p;ider,  . 

II 

69 

Ohio 

Willis,  Tilghman  H.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

S 

6^ 

Indiana. 

Walker,  John  W. ,  .  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

II 

69 

Ontario. 

Wilson,  John  I.,  .  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

3 

53 

Ohio. 

Wallace,  J.  D . 

Farmer,  .  .  . 

27 

101 

Canada. 

Wilson,  Joshua  E.,  •  • 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

15 

77 

S.  Carolina. 

Wallis,  William,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

4 

55 

Ireland. 

Wilson,  Luther  B..  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

18 

S3 

Maryland. 

Walsh,  John  I).,  .  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

s 

63 

New  York. 

Winchester,  Chas.  W.,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

27 

101 

Vermont. 

Walworth,  Warren  F.,  . 

Man  ufacturer, 

3 

53 

New  York. 

Wing,  Charles  S.,  .  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

26 

99 

Counec’cut. 

Ware,  Isaac  S., . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

20 

»7 

Missouri. 

Witherspoon,  Beuj.  F., 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

17 

81 

S.  Carolina. 

Warne,  Frances  W.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

25 

97 

Canada. 

Wolfe,  f.  B . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

4 

55 

Illinois. 

Warren,  Wm.  F . 

Pres.  Univ.,  . 

25 

97 

Mass. 

Woodring,  Thomas  H., 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

II 

69 

Pennsylv’a. 

Waters,  Wesley  G.,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

8 

63 

Ohio. 

Woods,  Henry  Clay,  .  . 

Pastor,  .... 

6 

59 

New  York. 

Waugh,  H.  E-, . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

24 

95 

New  York. 

Wright,  Philip  Percy,  . 

School  Prine., 

15 

77 

Alabama. 

Weakley,  Henry  C.,  .  . 

Cor.  Sec.  Dea¬ 
coness  Ass’n., 

14 

75 

Ohio. 

Wuhrmann,  Joh.  U  ,  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

17 

81 

Switzerl’d. 

Whiting,  James  W.,  .  . 

Ins.  Agent,  . 

6 

59 

S.  America. 

Yocum,  Ezra,  H . 

Pres  Elder,  . 

20 

87 

Pennsylv’a. 

Whitlock,  Elias  D.,  .  . 

Pres.  Elder,  . 

9 

65 

Ohio, 

Young,  Jesse  B.,  .... 

Editor,  .... 

18 

83 

Pennsylv’a. 

Whitlock,  Herbert  G., 

Att’y-at-law,  .' 

I 

49 

Illinois. 

Whitlock,  William  F., 

Univ.  Prof.,  . 

5 

57 

Ohio. 

Zoller,  Charles  C . 

Furniture,  .  . 

21 

89 

New  York. 

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Reception. 

Sermon,  3  P.  M. 

Reception  to  Fraternal  Delegates,  No.  1. 
The  Book  Concern. 

Lecture  No.  1.  “The  Bright  Side  of 
Life  in  Libby  Prison.”  Chaplain  C.  C. 
McCabe. 

Missions. 

Education. 

Sunday-school  Union  and  Tract  Society. 
Sermon,  3  P.  M. 

Reception  to  Fraternal  Delegates,  No.  2. 
Church  Extension. 

Lecture  No.  2. 

“  Company  D,  the  Die-no-Mores.” 

Dr.  A.  J.  Palmer. 

Freedmen’s  Aid  and  Southern  Educa¬ 
tion  Society. 

Epworth  Leagues. 


May  16.  Lecture  No.  3.  “Washington.” 

Ex-Gov.  Wm.  McKinley. 

“  17.  Sermon,  3  P.  M. 

“  18.  Reception  to  Fraternal  Delegates,  No.  3. 

“  19.  Woman’s  Foreign  Missionary  Society. 

“  20.  Lecture  No.  4.  “Lincoln.”  Bishop 

C.  H.  Fowler. 

“  21.  Woman’s  Home  Missionary  Society. 

“  22.  Deaconesses. 

“  23.  Lecture  No.  5.  “Grant.”  Bishop  J.  P. 

Newman. 

“  24.  Sermon,  3  P.  M. 

“  25.  Reception  to  Fraternal  Delegates,  No.  4. 

“  26.  National  City  Evangelization  Union. 

“  27.  Temperance. 

“  28.  American  Sabbath  Union,  the  Bible 

Society,  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Evangelical 
Alliance. 

“  29.  Philanthropy,  Hospitals,  Orphanages, 

Homes  for  the  Aged. 


STANDING  COMMITTEES. 

ASSIGNMENTS. 


FIRST  CHURCH  (Methodist  Episcopal),  Mondays,  Wednesdaj’s,  Fridays. 


Episcopacy, . Audience  Room. 

Itinerancy, . Sunday-school  Room. 

Boundaries, . Lecture  Room. 


Y.  M.  C.  A.  BUILDING, . Mondays,  Wednesdays,  Fridays. 

Revivals, . Lecture  Room. 

Temporal  Economy, . Association  Hall. 

State  of  the  Church, . Society  Hall. 


FIRST  CHURCH,  . Tuesdays,  Thursdays,  Saturdays. 

Book  Concern, . Sunday-school  Room. 

Missions, . Audience  Room. 

Education, . Lecture  Room. 


Y.  M.  C.  A.  BUILDING, . Tuesdays,  Thursdays,  Saturdays. 

Church  Extension, . Lecture  Room. 

Sunday-school  and  Tracts, . Association  Hall. 

Freedmen's  Aid, . Society  Hall. 


Temperance  Committee, . Y.  M.  C.  A.  Hall. 


POSTLGDE. 


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UR  WORK  is  done.  It  has  been  a  labor  of  love,  requir¬ 
ing,  however,  great  haste  on  account  of  the  proximity 
of  the  later  Annual  Conferences  to  the  General  Con¬ 
ference.  We  are  indebted  to  the  “  Year  Book,”  Secre- 
&  taries  and  Society  officers  and  their  reports,  Epworth 
Herald,  Christian  Advocates,  Book  Concern,  Corre¬ 
ia  sponding  Secretary  Cleveland  Committee,  and  many  kind  friends 
for  assistance  rendered.  No  expense  or  effort  on  the  part  of  the 
Northwestern  has  been  spared  to  make  the  list  of  portraits  and 
sketches  as  complete  as  possible — so  complete  that  only  six  are 
wanting. 

We  trust  it  will  meet  your  approval  and  be  an  increasingly 
valuable  Souvenir  of  a  General  Conference,  noted  in  the  annals  of  the  Church 
for  its  earnest  consideration  of  every  interest;  its  final  settlement  of  vexing 
questions;  its  wise  legislation;  and  the  impetus  given  to  the  whole  Church 
in  spreading  “Scriptural  holiness  over  these  lands.” 


u  If  I  forget  thee,  O  Jerusalem, 

Let  my  right  hand  forget  her  cunning. 

If  I  do  not  remember  thee, 

Let  my  tongue  cleave  to  the  roof  of  my  mouth ; 
If  I  prefer  not  Jerusalem 
Above  my  chief  joy.” 

“On  thy  Church,  O  Power  Divine! 

Cause  thy  glorious  face  to  shine, 

Till  the  nations,  from  afar, 

Hail  her  as  their  guiding  star; 

Till  her  sons,  from  zone  to  zone, 

Make  thy  great  salvation  known.” 


J.  R.  CREIGHTON. 
M.  A.  HEAD. 


